A good many of the more innocent profiteers are men whose sin is that they take an offer of two shillings rather than an offer of eighteenpence for what cost them one and a penny.

The profiteers and the munition workers are endeavouring, incidentally, to better their own position.

The government was sound at the core, he claimed; and his own rage was at the few incompetents and profiteers.

not one of them is free from the entanglements of past things; when we look for the wisdom of statesmen we find the cunning of politicians; when open speech and plain reason might save the world, courts, bureaucrats, financiers and profiteers conspire.

gutenberg.org Title: The Profiteers Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim Release Date: January 2, 2004

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She was subsequently taken into custody, and the magistrate is now faced with the problem as to whether she is a good little girl in that she put money into War Loan, or a bad little girl in that she followed the example of the profiteers.

Patriotism in these days was not a mask for profiteers and murderers were not permitted to hide their bloody hands in the folds of their nation's flag.

Of topical allusions, apart from timeworn themes of coupons and profiteers, there was scarce a sign, and such burlesque as there was had no sort of subtlety in it.

You aren't dealing now with one of those profiteers who remained (with honour) in his own country.

" *** Confirmation is still awaited of the rumour that several food ships have recently torpedoed themselves rather than fall into the hands of the profiteers.

The custom among profiteers of giving them their cast-off motor cars probably acted as the thin end of the wedge.

This story was preferred, for the reasons implied, by Frances Gilchrist Wood, who sees in Wu Fong's garden the subtle urge of acres of flowers, asleep under the stars, pitted against the greed of profiteers; who sees in answer to Western fume and fret the wisdom of Confucius, "Come out and see my poppies."

" Is "G.K.C." also among the profiteers?

Our world seems made up of profiteers and of those who would be profiteers but can't, and so abuse those who can.

Our world seems made up of profiteers and of those who would be profiteers but can't, and so abuse those who can.

i' London and elsewhere, rich men, who grew richer because of their work as profiteers.

If the anti-social individual should be punished, what of many of the profiteers and captains of industry who manipulate business and property for purely selfish ends?

"These are only the early potatoesthe main crop will be all right," said the profiteers right and left, and gradually the masses began to echo them, as is usual in Germany.

While the poor are being deprived of what they have, the purchases of pearls, diamonds, and other gems by the profiteers are on a scale never before known in Germany.

Particularly sad is this self-sacrifice in view of the gigantic profits of the food usurers and war profiteers.

At the top is a narrow circle of agrarian and industrial profiteers, often belonging to the aristocratic classes.

Though all Germans, with the exception of a few profiteers, are grumbling at the length of the war, it must not be supposed that they have lost hope.

It is noteworthy that several of the more outspoken German editors have been suspended for attacking these profiteers.