Word: mammon
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Once more, it is vicious because of the rich man, poor man problem. There is a premium on the long purse; and Mammon has his share in dictating grades. The financially less able scholar is given an unfair handicap in the contest with a wealthy competitor. Sentiment on this score is intense and vigorous...
Hannibal Hooker sets out from his Hoosier Quaker home to become a minister and to mend the world singlehanded. Before long he finds himself extolling Mammon in the pulpit of a brand-new stone temple and wishing he loved a brand-new, stone-cold wife for something besides her money. His mind cracks, and he disappears...
...throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits two heroes, a stout old man and a simple, good-natured youth, against an unconscionable dastard...
Live, Love and Learn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sends Robert Montgomery forth from a whimsical, penniless life in Manhattan's Washington Square section into battle against the stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When...
...Dietrich, Nazi press chief, denounced freedom of the press in democracies as "a mask behind which . . . vultures hide their faces." U. S. correspondents smothered chuckles when the serious doctor declared that the duty of a New York journalist is to "tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind their ears, flapping their fingers, emitting a throaty croak...