Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week by the superb, cumulative performance of Vanni-Marcoux...
...work's sake," pointing out that U. S. labor unions work tirelessly for shorter hours. What, then, supplies the U. S. urge to work? "In the last analysis," observed Le Temps, "the American overworks to overproduce and thereby overenrich himself. The super-assiduity of Homo Americanus springs from his lust for Power...
Police and a squad of Marines battled a mob last week on Hollywood Boulevard. Overhead a battle squadron of airplanes looped and scattered flare bombs. Milling, shouting, jeering, cheering thousands surged along the roped and guarded sidewalk. They came by motor and trolley from miles around, inflamed with the lust to gape. They came to see the famed females of the movies in what is not inaccurately described on nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood...
...infant likes to express itself by making a noise. At an early age, a rattle is sufficient. Later on, much more ingenious methods as the tin horn or drum are resorted to, until wise parents are forced to restrain its wanton lust for noise, or it will become a public nuisance to everyone...
...minute's roving in the catalogue reveals numerous courses hitherto out of the Vagabond's ken. So, with a view of satisfying his lust for travel, the Vagabond intends dropping in on one or two of them in the near future...