Word: lust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Kong, 30-ft. prehistoric whatnot who, transplanted to Manhattan, was shot by airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, his son is a mild hobgoblin, with small taste for adventure. When Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack (instead of Fay Wray, who aroused his father's lust) arrive to hunt for hidden treasure on his South Sea island, he greets them hospitably, defends them against hostile natives...
...Headline-of-the-week from the New York Evening, Post: LUST SEED SOWN, COPELAND'S VIEW...
...Daily Herald quoted a "Southern authority'' in Washington as having forecast "a new civil war ... a massacre of unarmed blacks by armed whites mad with blood lust...
...tail; dignified walruses which almost succeed in gnashing him with their tusks; caribou, of which a herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala makes the mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader...
...periodical world, J. V. Cunningham, recipient of the prize for verse. Albert Guerard, Jr., whose "Winter in Davos" merits the fiction award, has never before been published. "Winter in Davos" has the effect of making one wish that Gertrude Stein would not be read by undergraduates with a lust for composition; more and more does it become evident that hers is, although an eminently imitable technique, the kind that does not go well with the tyro, for the tyro always succeeds in producing an unconvincing imitation, not of Miss Stein, but of Ernest Hemingway. It would be very depressing indeed...