Word: greeding
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...feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware, which the wisest doctor and the most discerning priest would need years to explore before they could half understand it. The attachment was a pitiable thing, the horrible confusion of a sexually uneducated boy and a socially uneducated girl with greed and social position and an uncertain racial standard and a kind of weird search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have...
...shall see whether in the worlds greatest city the forces of greed and plunder can completely muzzle the truth and whether they can appease the public appetite with Dead Sea fruit in order that they themselves may get control of the Government of New York to serve their own selfish ends at the expense of humanity and decency and honesty in municipal administration...
...They are parties to definite and unusual combinations and agreements, whereby each is obligated to reveal to confederates the intimate details of his business and is restricted in his freedom of action. It seems to me that ordinary knowledge of human nature and of the impelling force of greed ought to permit no serious doubt concerning the ultimate outcome of the arrangements...
...earliest, has lasted with least change, and bids fair to endure with greatest permanency. The East is both civilized and barbarous, and out of its barbarity new hordes may rush upon the flimsy fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed to organize the tremendous forces of the East into a unanimity of hostility. A mess of potage for today is not worth a birthright for tomorrow. If the West can never understand the East, it must at least stop to calculate...
...wholly greed that prompts this front and sacrifice. The thought is revolting. A gold rush is as much an opportunity to throw off the constantly increasing strain of civilization as one to gain wealth. The same urge that sends men toiling to the woods and streams for game whose value is rarely ever that of even the instruments that one employed to get it, sends them through a New Mexican blizzard to the town of Gold Dust. Men are more elemental than they know...