Word: lust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be a great relief and rather an encouragement to those same reformers to find that their notoriously proper neighbors across the water are suffering from the same lamentable public sentiment which supports our pink and green and yellow journals to "pander to the blood lust of a host of lowbrow readers". In this part of the world there have been so many murder stories recently, reported of necessity by even the best newspapers, that the genuine highbrow (a species which appears to be dangerously near extinction in the welter of blood and bullets) must discontinue his newspaper subscriptions altogether...
...tremendous challenge, "for what you are, the race shall be". If the world seems worse, if evil seems more rampant, it is not true that all of these forces against right-eousness were not present in the hearts of men before the war. The hatred, the cruelty, the lust, the falsity, was not on the surface, but it was there underneath, and the war simply brought it out into the light. Never in history have men and women, especially young men and women with their lives before them, faced so stirring a challenge to fight the fight for the establishment...
...English should be good even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they...
...araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists in us individually and collectively; all of these must first be reckoned with...
...together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern for the world's peace and a deep consciousness of the power of the United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind...