Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...
Zealous and sturdy, the oldtime missionary stepped confidently into a hero's role. He had no backing of wealth, no organization of boards and committees. But behind him was a fresh, vigorous British and U. S. religious awakening; before him the duty, as held by nearly every Protestant church, of carrying the Word to the ends of the earth. Famed are such pioneers as Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), who put a sign "Is It Pleasing to God?" in his room at Brown University, spent a year and a half in traveling to Burma. Ordained a Congregationalist, he espoused baptism...
...almost three hundred years ago when Edward Hopkins carried Anne Yale across his polished threshold into the comfort of a well-appointed home. Governor Hopkins was a busy man, a wealthy London merchant, but well he understood the Chaucer's exclamation "on bokes." As befitted his wealth and inclination, the good man's library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head...
Both types promote a sense of values which can be overemphasized. This is the sense of values which gives special importance to immediate material considerations such as position and wealth, instead of to less obvious things such as intellectual and artistic ability, cultivation, and character. Influence and affluence often reflect brains and personality, but the latter qualities too frequently express themselves in other ways for which there is little or no recognition...
...exploitations, bribery, profanity, dissipation, diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work; the palace towering over the hovel; privilege and underprivileged...