Word: carnalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment...
...marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form and move through the trees in radiance." But for all her innocence, Lynneth held the household hypnotized, worked a sinister charm over carnal Douglas. One electric day, detailed to keep her indoors, he succumbed to her eerie charm only to be tossed aside when a flash of lightning lured her into the storm. Forced into her room, she moaned and wailed like a caged animal till Joan, unnerved by the noise, unshackled...
...Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete with carnal favors. Happily, none of the main characters is convincing-not even Cousin (by marriage) Ann who comes to Nat's rescue...
...trial for witchcraft (Increase Mather and many another divine officiating), an old medicine woman swears this pirate who so cleverly duped Doll with his talk of Hell, was none other than her earthly son. Doll of course denies his earthliness, swears it is carnal knowledge of a fiend she has, and convicts herself of her witchcraft...