Word: lust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his infant son in the room, and the three guilty men near at hand. Sixteen years later, by very little more than chance, these strange associates are ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence and depraved by the lust for revenge; the judge, driven periodically mad by flitting shadows of remorse; and the three guilty men, one the brother of the young man's sweetheart, another a tubercular killer, and the third a bloody, slimy, bullet-pierced specter. The cataclysm that follows is as staggering as so highly explosive material...
...should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master...
...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...
...proposed Postoffice investigation is further evidence of the so-called liberals' lust for notoriety. The University is indirectly accused of destroying first class mail, and preventing the delivery of the pamphlets. Even if such were the case, there would be small reward to be gained by these men except a selfish feeling of importance at proving a point...
...rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead Sea fruit, its legacy bitter memories alone...