Word: sensualist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship...
...Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts to outdistance them. It is very plain that the author has carefully studied all of the vices of ancient Rome and is attempting to shock the reader by revealing them through the veil of satire. Seldom does...
...took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father.? It was a revolting charge, which of course made me angry almost to an ungovernable extent. It was a charge which made my father out to be a foul sensualist and a foul hypocrite, and the charge was therefore a foul one! It was a deadly insult to every member of my family. A charge so foul and loathsome could only have been made by a foul-minded man, and I repeat that because of that he is a FOUL...
Testimony. Said Captain Wright: "The late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...