Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emotions in the reading of tales of murder and suicide. They find a kind of psychological relief in the death and mental anguish of others; and thus, perhaps, are kept from committing suicide themselves. Mental stimulation furnishes a sort of antitoxin to what is generally termed "the latent blood-lust of a morbid humanity...
...sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...letter was published by Le Figaro in Paris, and is headed "From Dr. Franklin to a lady friend in France." It is a delightful and original satire on the futility of fame and the human lust for knowledge. Some excerpts...
Imbued with a lust for power, he looks upon the Ruhr with cruel eyes, and, " Hugo Stinnes, master of coke so long that he has come to look like a piece himself," waits for his opportunity...