Word: lustfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before, now is the industry's most fashionable musical device...
...little further. Another section of the same statute provided identical punishment (a year in jail, $1,000 fine) for owning, lending, selling, giving away or showing any newspaper "largely made up of criminal news, police reports, accounts of criminal deeds or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." A literal prosecutor, with a sly liking for gamey books, might turn that one against some newspapers...
...groom, "in the kingdom that I mean united as one family and as one nation indivisible. I mean that this is not a matter of a sample for everybody. . . . But those that are living according to my teaching, they are redeemed from self indulgence and sex indulgence, human affection, lust and passion and all those detestable tendencies...
Destruction is no new thing: our remote ancestors faced destruction from pride, envy, anger, hate, sloth, gluttony, lust, famine, pestilence and violence-just as we do. A cavalier attitude toward personal improvement usually results in personal deterioration...
Oxcart Economy. That has been Paraguay's leading question ever since Dictator Francisco Solano López's, lust for power led Paraguay to defeat in the bloody war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (1865-1870). The debacle of the Chaco War with Bolivia (1929-38) had just about finished the job. It left Paraguay a back-country ruin...