Word: sensuality
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...Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom he worships but thinks he loves. He is tempted on shipboard by Mrs. Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia, who announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter...
...acute pain of a wolf trapped by the foot. It sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which there really is no precedent. . . . There is no pretense possible that these spectacles...
...bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering of the Jews, bright with savagery, sensual, despairing...
Morality will continue and magazines will continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian...
...farm-master, who is her husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband was the maker. Then follows the neighbor's revenge-and her own grief, wondering whose child she is to bear. It all moves with despatch to a well-planned happy ending-but unmistakably planned...