Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless to point out that many of the men elected by them have court convictions to their credit, powerful machines to repay for their services, and no interest in the public office except as a means of furthering their own personal ambition and greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics...
Representing the mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...
...rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes no stock. An incompetent dancer, she schemed her way into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from...
...deposits not stringent enough. This crisis in banking has impressed the public with the realizations that a bank inspection cannot be superficial if the depositor is to be adequately protected. The general laxity of banking laws made it easy for the czars of high finance to indulge their drunken greed in the field of shady manipulations. It is true they are returning to sobriety in the prisoners' dockets of our courts, but the morning after headache is largely John Public...
...gladhander, he stayed most of the time in his little white house, only emerging to campaign, to tell the public that he was going to take the wild beast of greed by the beard; that EPIC