Word: lusted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honolulu, paradisaic melting pot of East & West, was tense with trouble last week. Yellow men's lust for white women had broken bounds. Short sharp disorders brought the tramp of soldiery through the streets. A tremor of apprehension ran through Hawaii's motley population- coolies from China, great Russians from Siberia, little Japanese crowded off their homeland, Portuguese, Porto Ricans, Koreans, Filipinos, sugar and pineapple workers...
...Tolstoi. Psychologically his work is intensely interesting, but this should not obscure the creative and artistic qualities of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." Mr. Carr's book is a dispassionate study of the great Russian novelist. The biographer believes that Dostoevsky, in his subtlety, brutality, piety, and lust, came nearer to the inconsistency of the Elizabethans than to any other age. His book, although often unsympathetic to Russian nature, is a readable and thoughtful analysis...
...Roosevelt had a lust for war. To him most wars were just. Only "flubdubs and mollycoddles" opposed them. He worried himself half sick lest he miss "the fun" in Cuba and when he returned he clamored loudly for a Medal of Honor. Most thoughtful citizens were amazed that his foreign policy from 1901 to 1909 did not embroil the U. S. in hostilities. A thorough jingo, he nevertheless won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Russo-Japanese war settlement...
...mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were disappointed, too. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to sit and watch a family obliterate itself, motivated by unrelieved hatred and lust...
...Thank God for Him." If the Laborites turned from him lust week, there were thousands of good British citizens who were prouder of their Prime Minister last week than they had ever been. James Louis Garvin, editor of The Observer (and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) is seldom given to exuberance. Last week he wrote of James Ramsay MacDonald...