Word: lusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal his case in vain to the U. S. Supreme Court, charged Georgia with "railroading" him. This outside interest caused Georgians to lust for Frank's blood, guilty or innocent. Racial and sectional feeling was at fever heat...
...Silver Cord but if the cinema does not improve upon the play in this respect it has the compensating advantage of being able to show close-ups of Miss Crews's face, as it becomes ingratiating, anxious, angry, greedy, terrified and, finally, a twitching mask of misdirected lust. Good shot: Mrs. Phelps spilling a cocktail when her daughter-in-law says that she expects a baby...
...Citizen Roosevelt had no lust to gloat over the wintry country he was soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
...sudden lift of the curtain, the harsh blare of the brasses establish perfectly the mood for Elektra's maniacal lust to avenge the death of her father Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until...
...sinners will welcome this thoroughgoing if diffuse report on the Methodism of our day. Buchmanism, much more respectable than it was a few years ago, is apparently much less preoccupied by sex-sensationalism. Says Russell. "The words purity and impurity I heard occasionally at . . . Group meetings. Sometimes the word lust. But though I have attended hundreds of Group meetings, I do not remember hearing anything in bad taste...