Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under...
...apart from pure power lust and grandiose dreams of empire, why did Adolf Hitler choose last week as the time, and the forbidding coasts of Norway as the place, for his first move into the North...
...House of the Seven Gables (Universal) will enable people who have sometimes wondered what Nathaniel Hawthorne's 381-page New England novel is about to find out in some 87 minutes. It is about the property lust and slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does...
Years of Wrath. Göring's gargantuan lust for living may be glandular, or it may simply be overcompensation for years of privation, despair and wrath. Certain it is that much of his ruthlessness was acquired during World War I and while he was an obscure revolutionary, hating the "Jewish republic." More than Hitler or Goebbels or the late Ernst Röhm, who were abnormal anyway, Göring is a product of Germany's generation of defeat, of which Erich Maria Remarque has written...