Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rich Miss Radclyffe Hall, author of the suppressed Lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (TIME, Dec. 31), contributed $5,000 to the fund, last week, after selling for that sum to the Glasgow Art Gallery a portrait of the late Mrs. George Batten by John Singer Sargent. It had been bequeathed to her by Mrs. Batten...
Empire, Broadway at 40th.--The Captive. For those interested in pure theatre this play should hold much attraction. Its Lesbian theme is handled perfectly by Bourdet in La Prisonniere, and Hornblow Jr. has not lost much in translating it. Helen Menken at times falls short of the mark, but is, on the whole, fine...
...discovering a deep and profound symbolism, a meaning, or a moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...
...keep a copy of Funk and Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary on my desk, but once in a while a word is used in your great family guide that stumps me; for instance, Urning, Lesbian (page 20, TIME...
Webster's New International defines both Urning and Lesbian...