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...gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white men know it than an incredibly dangerous game played according to difficult rules...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...
...booklet called The Voice of Young America he attacked U. S. business methods, talked State Socialism but called it capitalistic reform. He took to the lecture stand, told the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia that "man is his brother's keeper and the old order of greed must pass." He helped found the Sound Money League, allied himself with Inflationist-Priest Charles E. Coughlin. Of his wife, whose safe-deposit boxes are stuffed with public utility stocks, he said: "Doris would agree to public ownership, but not to achieving it through confiscation...
...useless to point out that many of the men elected by them have court convictions to their credit, powerful machines to repay for their services, and no interest in the public office except as a means of furthering their own personal ambition and greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics...
Representing the mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...