Word: greeding
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...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
...York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed for the lion's share of the good things...
Scarcely had he finished this crusade when he plunged into another. Never had New York read more scandalous and shocking testimony than Lawyer Hughes uncovered in the Armstrong Insurance Investigation. Riddled with greed and corruption, the insurance companies had become a public menace. Hughes exposed their practices and then, from the pinnacle of the Governorship to which his crusading had lifted him, put through a code of laws designed to be a permanent safeguard...
...coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...
...former less remarkable than the latter. But Harpo, when he is through playing the harp, peers like a prisoner through the strings of his instrument; he pursues a girl quietly wherever she goes; his are light fingers as well as light touch and he picks pockets with dexterous greed; on meeting a new person, he offers his leg to be held and he whistles strangely...