Word: covetous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 31, p. 15, in a review of The Great God Brown, you speak of "the unwritten commandment that thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's brains...
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour...
...GREAT GOD BROWN?Eugene O'Neill's wise but wild investigation into the unwritten commandment that thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's brains...
...appearances the excessively freedom-loving Riffi, each of whom is accustomed to guard his personal freedom with his own rifle, cannot be made to covet the blessings which might or might not flow in Morocco under a Franco-Spanish administration...
...Lord thy God in vain. . . . 4) Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. . . . 5) Honor thy father and thy mother. . . . 6) Thou shalt do no murder. 7) Thou shalt not commit adultery 8) Thou shalt not steal. 9) Thou shalt not bear false witness. . . . 10) Thou shalt not covet. . . . Even after this present rereading, how many people can repeat all the Ten Commandments? Few, very few, witty Walter B. Pitkin, Associate Professor of Journalism of Columbia University, recounted last week. Doubtless he could not do so himself. Yet for some time Professor Pitkin has been asking people...