Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contribution," he said magnanimously, "to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria...
...produced consumers' items already lifted and with production of civilian goods at an all-time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute rush for profits...
...countries like Switzerland and Sweden, which had not been disfigured by the war, something was wrong. British tourists now had little money to spend abroad (their Government allowed them to take only ?75 each), and they were pale and poorly dressed. They betrayed an un-British and rather pathetic greed for unrationed food and clothes. The Continent's professional hosts decided sadly that it would not be a real tourist season until the Americans came along...
When we read; for instance, that he thought Boston "a vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed," we wonder what possibilities of contrast are left him if he should describe Europe's real "jumbled waste" cities. . . . For us, this "largest force lately to appear on the horizon of American letters" is a man to amuse a very prosperous culture which can still permit itself the undermining, disheartening, demoralizing effect of his kind of literature...
...thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...