Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city that prides itself on an enviable health record, look askance once more at our neighbor to the south and damn it again for the pesthole of filth, greed, racketeering and thievery that...
Spunky Newfoundlanders, famed for the free & easy way they have of pummeling an unpopular premier and smashing furniture in their Government Offices when aroused, were scathingly told by a Royal Commission last week that in Newfoundland "a continuing process of greed, graft and corruption has left few classes of the community untouched by its insidious influence...
...shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...
...Haggett family is a group of characteristic Yankee types, with, of course, their contrast of weakness and virtue. Some paintings which have been left them by an impoverished artist are suddenly found to be worth thousands of dollars. This discovery overwhelms the different members of the family. Impelled by greed they catch themselves in ugly conspiracies that would have ordinarily shocked them. The central character is Abby, the Haggett's maid of all work, who keeps her perspective as well as her rights in the helter skelter scramble to get hold of the paintings...
...that man is created for Happiness. She wrote psalms, performed cures. Like Mrs. Eddy (but some 30 years before her) she preached that disease is illusion. She warned her followers that trouble comes from eight kinds of "dust" which must be cast away: coveting, grudging, passion, hatred, enmity, fury, greed, haughtiness. In 1887, aged 89, Mrs. Nakayama "ascended into Heaven." Named Tenrikyo after the town where it centred, her cult flourished, first under official control, later (since 1908) as an independent Shinto sect. There are now 60,000-odd preachers, 10,000-odd churches including 30 in North America (half...