Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come to doubt as sound public policy. Valid criticism of Rockefeller should be based upon his lust for profits. The Standard Oil showed as little consideration to its customers as it did to its competitors. It is small consolation to them to know that Rockefeller was more honest in not watering his stock or rigging his companies than other capitalist promoters. Even a gift of seven hundred...
...whose name was Susanna ... a very beautiful woman. . . . And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year. . . . And when the people departed Susanna went in and walked in her husband's orchard. And the old men saw her . . . and they were inflamed with lust towards her. . . . She went in on a time . . . and was desirous to wash herself. . . . So she said to her maids: Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard. . . . When the maids were gone forth the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: . . . Nobody...
...State called on Medicine to help break up this criminal educational system, and offered a new institution to work in. The New York State Training School for Boys formally opens at Warwick, N. Y. Oct. 1. The school already contains 170 boys whose troubles range from incorrigibility to thievery, lust and murder. By Oct. 1 they will have 330 companions...
...fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul, John a happy farmer who loved the earth and all its foison. Anne chose John, sending away Eleazar half mad with sanctity and lust. The brothers' contradictory natures clash throughout the story, symbolize for Authoress Carlisle contrary traits in Pilgrim Father psychology...
Home again, Helen finds it more dreadful than ever. Thurso's mother hates her, watches her like a hawk. Between lust for Helen and visions of his father's ghost, Mark begins to go mad. To remove all trace of his father's memory, Thurso cuts clown the humming cable, is cut down himself. Hopelessly crippled, in ceaseless agony, he hangs on to suffering and life. Helen, who hated Thurso for his irreversible will, now loves him for it. In mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother...