Word: lusting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...race antipathy is implanted by nature and not the effect of social causes which are active in every closed social group, no matter whether it is racially heterogeneous or homogeneous." He offered as proof the willing miscegenation of whites, Indians and Negroes in Central and South America, of white lust for Negro slave wenches in the oldtime U. S. South...
...talked, Peter Kuerten's eyes often winked rapidly, his hands often fluttered. "These symptoms," Teuton psychiatrists at the trial told Teuton reporters, "betray a lust to kill...
Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...
...biographer, Michel Vaucaire is more concerned with presenting an attractive outline of a life than with painting the portrait of a man who was endowed with something far greater than a mere wander-lust. He had an all compelling spirit for exploration, a zeal for lifting the veil of a subtle mystery of his time, the secret of Equatorial Africa. His later journeys in the form of the several trips to the far reaches of Scandinavia where he collected material for "The Land of the Midnight Sun" and the journey to "Russia in 1903 where he died should...
...difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy to demonstrate how Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what Playwright Baum has, with consummate taste and brilliant use of understatement, avoided. Instead, she tells a series of delicately interwoven stories...