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...shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...
...Haggett family is a group of characteristic Yankee types, with, of course, their contrast of weakness and virtue. Some paintings which have been left them by an impoverished artist are suddenly found to be worth thousands of dollars. This discovery overwhelms the different members of the family. Impelled by greed they catch themselves in ugly conspiracies that would have ordinarily shocked them. The central character is Abby, the Haggett's maid of all work, who keeps her perspective as well as her rights in the helter skelter scramble to get hold of the paintings...
...that man is created for Happiness. She wrote psalms, performed cures. Like Mrs. Eddy (but some 30 years before her) she preached that disease is illusion. She warned her followers that trouble comes from eight kinds of "dust" which must be cast away: coveting, grudging, passion, hatred, enmity, fury, greed, haughtiness. In 1887, aged 89, Mrs. Nakayama "ascended into Heaven." Named Tenrikyo after the town where it centred, her cult flourished, first under official control, later (since 1908) as an independent Shinto sect. There are now 60,000-odd preachers, 10,000-odd churches including 30 in North America (half...
...even if it were right in principle to extend its functions, a totally blind man could see that the time is not yet ripe for such extension. . . . The government should content itself in the field of industry with acting as a check to private industry's exploitation and greed...
...Pitts grew up at Santa Cruz, Calif., went to Hollywood in 1917, tried to get jobs as a serious actress. The only director who would give her one after her performance in Mary Pickford's Little Princess was Erich von Stroheim. Her treatment of a lugubrious part in Greed convinced him that she was the "ablest tragedienne in Hollywood." and she got the sad role of the mother in All Quiet on the Western Front. That film was previewed at a Hollywood theatre just after a Zasu Pitts comedy. When the audience was moved to reminiscent laughter...