Word: lusted
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...infant likes to express itself by making a noise. At an early age, a rattle is sufficient. Later on, much more ingenious methods as the tin horn or drum are resorted to, until wise parents are forced to restrain its wanton lust for noise, or it will become a public nuisance to everyone...
...minute's roving in the catalogue reveals numerous courses hitherto out of the Vagabond's ken. So, with a view of satisfying his lust for travel, the Vagabond intends dropping in on one or two of them in the near future...
...King was the life and death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
Epic. The sentimental cinema version of Moby Dick served as a reminder of the curious, thrilling story of Ahab, monomaniac. "A Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness...
...natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover in Hollywood, John Gilbert makes his eyes pop out and his chest heave in a way that little furthers his ambition to be also its greatest actor...