Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here...
...Louis XI, the medieval, knew all there is to know about efficiency: the value and power of Money, and its use in buying men, the importance of the single personal command, the importance of time." He was the biggest big executive of his day, a man who spent his life bringing order on a large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions...
...Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city is in full swing, with industries, entertainments, police, prostitution and crime. The German prisoners, with great patience and ingenuity, forge banknotes. Gradually, long after the War is over, the camp disintegrates; our hero makes his precarious way home, nearly three years after the Armistice...
...fought a duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope; in Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling, he became a spy for the Inquisition; congenitally unable to toe the line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried...
...exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...