Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl had all of Huey's lust for power and none of Huey's sure sense of how to use it. Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...
Among the veterans in the book field, Phillip's forsees the annual lust for literature, and has been stocking up its non-text department for some time in preparation. The Harvard Book Store, almost alone in the rare and ancient book department, is happily counting the shopping days till Christmas...
Gaudy Legend. At 47, after three decades in the dazzled public eye, Actress Bankhead is one of the few people in the English-speaking world instantly and unmistakably identifiable by her first name. Her lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...
...Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely in the face, it is too late to win John's love or even arouse his lust: he has kind of taken her words to heart, and settled down with someone else. For Alma, there is the bench in the square and the passing traveling salesman...
Dorothy Heyward has taken the "Emperor Jones" theme of a man who lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior shell of the failure of a Negro uprising, "Charleston, 1822" stands as a probable explanation of why before 1863 the slaves were not ready for their freedom...