Word: lustful
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...desires at the outset to recognize the sincerity of those with whom it differs in the matter of military training. It realizes particularly that many splendid men are engaged in teaching military science in schools and colleges and that it is far from their purpose to inculcate in pupils lust for war. It knows that members of the War Department and Army officers who advocate compulsory military training for all boys do so from the firm conviction that this is the best way to keep our country out of war. Here, in other words, is a question of policy...
When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...
...Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...NAKED MAN ? Vere Hutchinson?Century ($2). A man's dream of one woman, his lust for another, need of a third?these are his nakedness. A son,' conceived in drunkenness and evil, had stagnated in the murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land...