Word: lusted
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...shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility for him to be obvious or hollow. Such defects get into works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas. But Schubert never lacked charming ideas. Within the limits of his interests and curiosities he hatched more good ideas in his thirty-one years than all the rest of mankind has hatched since the beginning of time...
...dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually are interested in the jarring combat of two powerful elevens, and not in the incidental festivities. The lust for sensation has temporarily been sated...
...Their lust for business last week befuddled the much badgered Federal Radio Commission. Two of the companies-the I. T. & T. (through its subsidiary Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.) and R. C. A. demanded the right to set up wireless telegraph stations and sell service between cities in continental...
...mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses). The raucous trulls at Fat Margot's knew him well. The haughtier but hardly more discriminate Katherine de Vausselles flippantly ignored his lust for her when he could no longer buy pretty trinkets. To forget this voluptuous witch he decided to leave Paris. But beforehand, with three others, he burglarized the College of Navarre, a rich haul, which made departure necessary...
...first act discovers Elmer Gantry, newly ordained and already eloquent in the jargon of eternal love and mortal lust, laying siege to little Lulu Bains, daughter of a deacon. Having seduced her, he is threatened with a wedding. But Elmer Gantry prays to God: "Show me some way out of this marriage, for Christ's sake, Amen." Sneering at his feeble victim, he escapes the nuptials by stamping out of the ministry to become a salesman of plows...