Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwarfed, matty-haired Alberich will snatch the gold from the river's depths only to be tricked by the gods. Thus the way will be paved for the colossal musical saga which tracks through a dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending only, when greed has completed its own destruction. Great credit for the current Wagner vogue is due Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the mighty-voiced Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante...
...with a sort of grim humor he has reared himself upon his hind legs and is waving his murderous paw with a delicate and artistic grace. To be sure, Gulliver is brutally blunt at times. For example, when he suspects that he is dealing with a species of miniature greed and exploitation, he roars out a stentorian refutation of the whining little fawners' claims, and sends them quaking and tumbling before the blast. There's nothing shilly-shally about "The New Gulliver"; it takes no footnotes to give direction to his barbs...
...first hand and younger men who had looked on from the outside. Hitherto the elders had kept silent while the youthful crusaders monopolized front pages with a revision of U. S. history which made those elders out to have been deplorable bunglers, duped by propaganda or impelled by greed. But when ardent young Senator Nye called the Wartime President of the U. S. a liar, the pent-up wrath of Woodrow Wilson's onetime associates burst forth in dancing fury...
...role: "Through a well-ordered neutrality to do naught to encourage the contest, through adequate defense to save ourselves from embroilment and attack, and through example and all legitimate encouragement and assistance to persuade other nations to return to the ways of peace and goodwill.'" Entrenched Greed, Making an abrupt transition from world affairs to domestic matters, the President fell violently upon his political enemies at home. Almost in a twinkling the whole trend and temper of his speech changed from a State document to a campaign address. Declared the President: "Within
...sure, in so doing, we have invited battle. [More applause] We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed [Cheers and applause]. . . . "In March 1933, I spoke of the practices of the unscrupulous money changers who stood indicted in the court of public opinion. ... I said that they had admitted their failure and had abdicated. . "Abdicated? Yes, in 1933, but now with the passing of danger they forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer...