Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether Mr. Thaw is, after all, a slobbering degenerate or merely an old man infected with a disgusting and pathetic lust for pleasures which youth alone can make charming; whether or not the Mirror had any higher purpose in its denunciations than the enlargement of an already huge circulation-matters little. The whole episode merely furnished one more example of how a smart editor can make sensationalism the light that illumines his paper's exceeding morality...
...Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...
...Singapore base. To talk about this country's being provocative is sheer nonsense. Out of 352 warships building or projected, our contribution is 20. We have no lust of conquest; we have no desire for more territory; all we want is peace to protect and develop our trade and the territory we have got. No gesture is needed to show that Britain is a peaceable country...
...ballad is being written of cold, of hunger, of a great lust for gold. The scene is New Mexico; the characters are the same daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth...
...Lust is a serpent twining with subtle coil a man and a woman whom fires devour...