Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Child life is blighted and its future obscured and darkened by broken homes, broken in many instances by the selfish ness and lust of conscienceless and godless parents. This unchecked and growing evil, largely indulged in by people of wealth and position, destroys the sanctity of marriage and gives to it the character of legalized prostitution. A wicked and adulterous generation makes no reckoning of the disasters and misfortunes that inevitably attend its evil and lustful ways...
...much for civilized Rochester. Fear and horror and the lust for blood were in its cry: "Shoot the lion! Shoot the lion! Shoot the lion...
...have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest living composer...
These antique legends point back & back to a Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world...
...lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else. Jim, the illegitimate son of her kindly, easy going husband, Captain Jacox of the "River Belle", is trained in the ways of Selina, and sacrificing love, honor, friendship, everything to the lust for power, dies unsatisfied. His son, Howard becomes a Communist agitator, married a half-breed Indian for love, finds happiness, as the old Captain, his grandfather has found it, in helping others