Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firecrackers. Other Hechtiana: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (sketches), Gargoyles (flaying journalistic and juridical hypocrisies), The Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor, was temporarily imprisoned) and The Egotist (played by Actor Leo Dietrichstein...
...follow the sea, whose softness bred moral degeneracy in another, whose piety did its best to force Edward, an artist of sorts, into the clergy. This jauntily unpleasant book is an attack upon a type of woman to which the term Victorian has often been applied, always inaccurately, since lust, ignorance and bigotry are not the peculiar property of any particular period...
...deserted him, then both followed their blood until he was a river front soak, and she, one gusty night, crept back back to die in the old house on Innes street under the coverlet whose motto was: "The dog for faithfulness, the pheasant for luxury, the swan for lust...
...Senator Couzens is recovered, reanimated with the lust of life and investigation. Mr. Couzens and the two Democratic members of the Com- mittee, Senators King of Utah and Jones of New Mexico, were eager to reopen the inquiry...
...severe in his condemnation of the sins of the Anglican Church. He finds its cowardice colossal-for it has attacked drunkenness and sexual immorality, but has, like a cur, kept safely away from dangerous enemies such as the greed of Mammon and the lust of Mars. Nevertheless, he contends that the Anglican Church (like the Eastern Orthodox) is apostolic, whereas the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Churches (Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.) have departed so far from the faith that they are not apostolic. He sees some prospect for union with the Eastern Churches, but none with the others. Finally...