Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. Contrary to the beliefs of most parents and pediatricians, thumb-sucking in infants is a harmless pleasure. No scientist has ever proved, said Dr. Langford, talking to the American Academy of Pediatrics last week, that thumb-sucking 1) introduces germs into tonsils and stomach, 2) stimulates harmful sexual activity, or 3) causes receding jaws and buckteeth. Thumb-sucking may push milk teeth slightly out of line, but if it is stopped before permanent teeth appear, no faces are spoiled. Parents who try to break nursing babies of the habit only get them riled, which may have serious psychological effects...
Lina's mother, swearing that she did not know the father of her grandchild, produced a village birth certificate indicating an age of four years and eight months for Lina. When the child was eight months old, said Mrs. Medina, she showed signs of sexual maturity, began to menstruate. But skeptical Lima doctors took pictures of Lina's teeth and bones, concluded that she was nearer six than five, for her milk teeth had begun to fall out. Her pelvic bones, although small, were adult in shape, and she was, said Dr. Hipólito Larrabure of Lima...
...copy of this week's TIME [April 24], Radio section, you record the NBC ban on performance of Hold-Tight because the lyrics approximate Harlem's slang for sexual perversion...
...Theatre Project, it had spent $1,468,365 producing 27 plays, many of them flops. Congressman Taber of New York called "putrid" a bit in Sing For Your Supper where an old man appears and sings, "I don't wanna be intellectual. I wanna be sexual...
...with his English-born wife and two handsome children. But Ivy Low Litvinoff, the Soviets' No. 1 hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory, and left him blushing and speechless. Her most famous parties were in the purple splendor...