Word: greed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even if it were right in principle to extend its functions, a totally blind man could see that the time is not yet ripe for such extension. . . . The government should content itself in the field of industry with acting as a check to private industry's exploitation and greed...
...Pitts grew up at Santa Cruz, Calif., went to Hollywood in 1917, tried to get jobs as a serious actress. The only director who would give her one after her performance in Mary Pickford's Little Princess was Erich von Stroheim. Her treatment of a lugubrious part in Greed convinced him that she was the "ablest tragedienne in Hollywood." and she got the sad role of the mother in All Quiet on the Western Front. That film was previewed at a Hollywood theatre just after a Zasu Pitts comedy. When the audience was moved to reminiscent laughter...
Hagen speared the fear-proof Siegfried in the back, Brünnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...First National Bank of Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...left their old hunting grounds in Kansas for the Indian Territory, buffaloes were getting so scarce that government allowances and rations were welcome, and even their wild mourning dances did not always end in a war party, hungry for scalps. Between the noble savagery of the Osages and the greed of half-civilized whites nibbling at the Reservation's borders, Major Miles (all Indian Agents were automatically ''Major") had his hands full. The dice were loaded: "civilization" was bound to win. The quiet, unbitter history closes with Eagle That Dreams singing his chant to the rising...