Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
There are those, on the other hand, who look with bitter envy on the Nizam. Imagine the feelings of a starving poet in his Greenwich Village garret, when he reads of this princely exploit. What books could he shower upon the world, had he only the power! He can comfort himself with the thought that the Nizam's works, at their present price at least, will probably not sell widely outside of Hyderabad...
...recent action put themselves on the same side of the fence as the Tennessee fundamentalists. Their president and Dr. John Roach Straton are not so much on opposite poles as their labels imply. Neither is content to live and let live. Both lake the same position in attempting to exploit justice to carry out their convictions...
...Christians above all others are seeking after wealth. Their aim is to be rich at the expense of their neighbors. They come among aliens to exploit them for their own good and cheat them to do so. Their prosperity is far more essential to them than the life, liberty, and happiness of others...