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Word: lusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp in Missouri, join Quantrill's raiders and ride off to Santa Fe on a treacherous mission: to guide a gold-bearing wagon train into a bushwhackers' ambush. The wagons also carry beautiful, red-haired Arlene Dahl, who brings out strong, silent love in McCrea and villainous lust in Sullivan. Brought this far, any moviegoer should be able to gallop into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Frederick March and Florence Eldridge. Mr. March somehow lacks the gusto required of his character, although he is by no means unsatisfactory. And Miss Eldridge has to grapple with a very unrewarding part; she is mainly called upon to interrupt the general's love affairs to moralize about his lust and to arouse his affection by attempting suicide. Two other parts, however, afford rich characterizations for the actresses who play them. Jacqueline Daly is very entertaining as the General's feline, hair-mussing French mistress, and Irene Moore has a great deal of primeval charm as the native girl whom...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/16/1950 | See Source »

...roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. The automobile age created a rising demand, and after the Lucas No. 1, Texas wildcatters never stopped their probing in the earth's baffling substrata. Glenn McCarthy, a man with a lust for money and fame, became one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Many of the winning amateurs were old hands. A taxi driver recalled that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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