Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posed and posed for commercial photog- raphers?just a small group of them?and fly-by-night panderers had bought and bought the pictures, publishing them with greasy titles in cheap pamphlets that changed names from month to month. The public, including school children, who clipped out the lust-inciting ladies, and passed them around in school, patronized this pornographic press, until its non-circulation had, according to the World, reached 150,000. Venders of fake dope and narcotic cures, fake aphrodisiacs, gland extracts, revolvers and artists' equipment had gladly advertised...
...Pearl of Great Price reveals itself in the theatre, a cheaply glamorous morality spectacle. The Pearl, symbol of maidenhood, is sole heritage of a pulchritudinous orphan, Pilgrim. With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" because Mother appeared in a miraculous vision to testify that homicide...
...There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
...desires at the outset to recognize the sincerity of those with whom it differs in the matter of military training. It realizes particularly that many splendid men are engaged in teaching military science in schools and colleges and that it is far from their purpose to inculcate in pupils lust for war. It knows that members of the War Department and Army officers who advocate compulsory military training for all boys do so from the firm conviction that this is the best way to keep our country out of war. Here, in other words, is a question of policy...
When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...