Word: shylocking
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...inventor of the Party's distinction between two kinds of capital: raffendes or "grasping loan capital" and schaffendes or "creative industrial capital." In practice this distinction means that a Jewish lender or an industrialist who does not contribute to Nazi funds is liable to be denounced as a Shylock with raffendes Kapital while non-Jews and regular contributors-to-the-party are left unmolested with their schaffendes wealth. Last week Germany's tycoons, whose business is increasingly regulated by the Ministry of Economics, shivered at the prospect that so loose and ingenuous a thinker as Herr Feder should...
Overnight the tone of talk in "The City"?London's Wall Street?changed utterly last week. Bitterness at Uncle Shylock changed to pride that John Bull had paid. Fear lest the pound fall vanished as Sterling rose slightly in terms of both the dollar and the franc. England was herself again. Blood had told. Hands across the sea. Honi soit qui mal y pense...
...permitted to express surprise that when President Hoover has assumed his real figure of an insatiable Shylock, his representative in Europe-for Norman Davis is playing the role of a super-Ambassado-is interfering between France and Germany and between France and Italy. . . . Europe's foreign politics seem to be to the United States a kind of hellbroth into which Mr. Hoover, like Macbeth's witches, keeps pouring new poison...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...
...extend through the rest of this century. By malingering was I admitted twice to this Soldiers' Home. By malingering I can stay. Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations. My symptoms were entirely subjective, actually nonexistent. This will give you an idea as to how "Uncle Shylock" gives the Dole. There are thousands who, in addition to the above, get compensation and pensions-by malingering. Thousands like me, young, healthy, have run on to this simple solution of living without working. Of course, being a wise old Uncle, he gives the dole to his fighting men. Perhaps...