Word: mammon
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...businessman did not lose his idealism. "The American did not believe he was selling his soul to Mammon, but thought he was merely pledging it for the moment, as he was ready to pledge anything he owned, with the hope of ultimate gain. He could not be quite comfortable about devoting himself solely to business until he had made it a virtue, and he always looked forward to a future which would justify spiritually his intense present preoccupation with the material. . . . We were boilingly busy. We must make our fortunes while there was still a chance in a new country...
With an Old Testament sonority the Chattanooga Times editorialized: "The label of criminality has been stamped upon the name of the once great Luke Lea. . . . Instead of serving the people who had honored him he elected to serve Mammon. His ambition for great riches led from the path of honor. And the day of reckoning is at hand...
Both God and Mammon have at last been served. Sunday their praises were carolled from the pulpit in a sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted...
...bankers were afraid. He is a stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns jewelry but is famed for his tremendous long-distance telephone bills. Wherever he goes he carries a set of checkers. Said the Paris Comet of him last year: "He has served both God and Mammon without ever being able to distinguish which was which...
...sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...