Word: greed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos Aires, visited Evita's bier several times and stayed five days before going back to his Montevideo radio engagement. But the damage was done...
Whether we like it or not-and about 56% of us do like it-the Man of the Year problem was definitely settled on Nov. 4th. Any man who can successfully battle greed, corruption, disloyalty and incompetence of 20 years' entrenchment deserves without question such an honor . . . Need I add, it is Eisenhower...
...proved more serious. The Christian conquerors from the West found large colonies of co-religionists in the Holy Land, of the Orthodox, Syrian and Armenian rites. Each variety of Christian regarded the others as heretical and untrustworthy, and acted accordingly. These theological differences, multiplied by the Crusaders' greed and frequent acts of cruelty, cost them the active sympathy of many native Christians. The great failure of the Crusades, however, was the lack of unity between the Western Europeans and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), whose army, until late in the 12th century, was still the strongest and best disciplined...
Beyond any doubt Master Harvard and Master Dunster have now learned in the world of eternity the error and stupidity of those principles of Godliness, reverence, truth, unselfishness, honour and decency to which they devoted themselves in the world below and the superiority of the principles of materialism and greed, especially as the latter are most effective instruments for the much to be desired "Dictatorship of the Proletariat," with its great wealth for the chosen few and its poverty and want for the many. G. Andrews Morlarty...
...last century. The plot, hingeing on the daring double dupe, is complicated but clear. There is a fantastic fencing fiesta at the end, staged by Mason and Granger, both fencers of the old school. The gallant does not get the girl, an excellent theory of the new school. Greed and honor, love and duty, chivalry and chauvanism clash on the field of melodrama. Good wins, as it should, but then, bad doesn't loose. The villain escapes, as he should and there are several beautiful women whose fates are left in doubt. All of which provides interesting speculation over...