Word: mammon
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...freshman dormitories who must spend his college years in old D Hall. Of course that will not be like living in E, or even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon, all of these are excellent. Or one could use the names of great captains of industry, Ford, Pinkham, Swift. Indeed there are all manner of delightfully apt names to adorn letter heads with. But A, B, C--really that is rather poor...
...with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check for $1,100 to help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike...
...workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry boss to discover what the trouble was, but he, too, felt Uldine's spell and stayed to listen. Thus did wisdom encounter and overcome the forces of Mammon...
...Moscow the Soviet press roundly scored famed basso Feodor Chaliapin for having "forsaken" Russia to "sing in the lands of Mammon." Numerous Soviet journals gave space to the following "confession" allegedly made by M. Chaliapin to "a member of the Moscow Theatrical Guild, who interviewed him recently at Paris before he left for New York...
...German way, and even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement. If the President really regards the Locarno policy as right, then must every German who is not soaked with black-red-gold or sold to mammon, veil his head. Then the Field Marshal President is become a danger for the national will. His name does not belong under this treaty. That at least does he owe to his fellow-warriors. We expect the Field Marshal not to sign but to fight...