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...black-eyed Widow Semiramis was matched by the stinginess of her frail, bullying sister Ann, who said when her husband died: 'Th' worst of it is I wasted a chicken on him yesterday." Rich Farmer Ezekiel Wikker was as mean as his sisters but added a manly lust and a thirst for hard liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stubborn Saint | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...year-old Poet Joseph Auslander, recently appointed to the "chair of poetry" of the Congressional Library, proposed as his first official act the building of "a singing tower," meaning a place where poets' work would be safe against "the horrors of the hour, Beast passion and the lust for power." At the end of a three-verse appeal which began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singing Fortress | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Lords Drunk | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Author Stone (Lust for Life) reead TIME, Oct. 18, note that TIME ave Ernest Hemingway his full quota of children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

With these appalling examples of pedophilia, the lust of mature men for prepubescent children, spreading daily in the Press, it looked to laymen as if a national wave of sex crimes against children was in full surge. In the opinion of competent medical authorities, however, the number of cases of this kind of psychosis that reached print was purely accidental, although both the older Brooklyn convict and the Staten Island house painter declared that their crimes had been suggested by newspaper accounts of similar assaults earlier in the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pedophilia | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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