Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited in three London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed seductions, he dropped more than one hint confirming rumors of his sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that his nose bled violently...
...midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor, the throes of sexual desire, the moment of satisfaction. At the erotic conclusion one shocked lady in the audience loudly piped...
...very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli. Its secretions, containing thyroxin, are produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid by emotional stress or other conditions is therefore at least one, and an important, factor in infertility...
...about a wholesome effect in an overanxious household, Dr. Perkins finds. "Attention is distracted from one's own personal problems through the outpouring of interest and affection on behalf of the newcomer . . . and it is by no means an uncommon experience for persons who have been victims of sexual frigidity to discover that the intimate responsibility and care of a little child have aroused a long postponed reaction...
...even readers impressed with Author Farrell's grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters' obsessed disgust with sexual and other bodily functions that has the strange effect of making them seem uniformly immature...