Word: greeding
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...there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold & greed. Author Pollock calls the whole thing a "verbal cartoon...
...native pearls. He lights a beacon, hoping to attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew ravage the island, leaving behind them the white men's shadows-lust, liquor, disease, greed. Dr. Lloyd is killed while trying to defend his race...
...superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold of this crowd and patiently instilled into its mixed elements of fanaticism and craftiness, its curiously contrasting elements of idealism and greed, the dependable, cooperative discipline of a magnificent partisan machine. He made them click-the whole lot of them, poets and place hunters-and the result was one of the most sweeping and astonishing triumphs we know anything about...
...investigation like this [by the Federal Trade Commission], involving every act of thousands of companies, hundreds of thousands of separate transactions ... for the last quarter of a century, it would be miraculous if there should not be found some instances of bad judgment, of the influence of greed, even perhaps of actual wrongdoing. Such instances, if any be found, will, I am sure, represent a very minute percentage of the transactions under investigation...
...This country is not going to be saved by the captains of industry. History shows that selfishness and greed have destroyed one government after another...