Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon, the ogre Greed. Most gruesome bit of all was the Demon of Hate, also bisexual, slashing a man's throat...
Some 30 years ago a young lawyer from the progressive State of Wisconsin went to Washington, began his career working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the Interstate Commerce Commission to New York State's Public Service Commission, where he continued his effort to restrain the selfishness of utilities. In those two jobs he saw all the egregious forms of industrial skulduggery...
...gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white men know it than an incredibly dangerous game played according to difficult rules...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
...booklet called The Voice of Young America he attacked U. S. business methods, talked State Socialism but called it capitalistic reform. He took to the lecture stand, told the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia that "man is his brother's keeper and the old order of greed must pass." He helped found the Sound Money League, allied himself with Inflationist-Priest Charles E. Coughlin. Of his wife, whose safe-deposit boxes are stuffed with public utility stocks, he said: "Doris would agree to public ownership, but not to achieving it through confiscation...