Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secret Studio (Olive Borden, Clifford Holland) is a room in the guts of the slums, where Artist Larry Kane paints beauteous model Rosemary with lust in his eye. The hero destroys the painting, thrashes the artist, marries the girl...
...prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour has come, and he has been called to whatever Valhalla has been prepared...
...confidence in aviation and the lust for adventure created by Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight, led airmen to predict a doubling in U. S. flying activity in 1927 and 1928. In the few days following the news of Captain Lindbergh's arrival in Paris, aviation schools throughout the U. S. reported a host of new applicants who wanted to be taught the art of flying. Barnstorming pilots noted a significant increase in the number of people who were willing to pay $3 and $5 for a few minutes' ride. One editorial writer said: "America is flying...
...purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child, I would seize it and destroy it. These periodicals empoison the soul created by God. They incite to ribaldry and lust...
...Seven Mortal Sins are: wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, covetousness and sloth. What is the seventh...