Word: mammon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curtice is a true symbol of our debt-burdened generation. Could he be the paid piper of mammon, whose honking horn lures us into the quicksand of two-toned time payments...
Londoners by tens of thousands crowded to glimpse the low, muddy wall of the temple. Hearing that it would soon make room for an office building-or a "Temple of Mammon," as some oldfashioned, ritualistic Socialists insisted on calling it-Britons went home in their time-honored way to write protesting letters to the newspapers. The press responded thunderously, and the owners of the site agreed to preserve the temple for at least a fortnight, until someone could figure out how to preserve Mithras' old home...
...mission to save Britain from the brink Reveals that Saints need not from Mammon shrink− The world's Industrial Croesus In partnership with Jesus Brings Christ to Britain labeled "Jesus...
They are blacks and whites, browns and yellows, dukes and Dyaks, cannibals and countesses, Klondike trappers and Scottish Trappists, Royal Lancers and Fijian dancers. They worship many gods, among them Allah, Buddha, the Christian Trinity, Lutembe the Crocodile of Uganda, and, in some cases, Mammon. They make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones...
...Crime, and the day may come when they will play the caustic Cantabrigians a fee not to darken their door or their theater. Although theater advertisements mean money, the courageous critics let fire any time they find the playwrights worshipping Theapis too little or the CRIMSON business editors worshipping Mammon too much...