The world that mistrusts the church on principle, that only waits the chance itself to profiteer and to get social preferment, is quick to anathematize the man who in a big way seems to corelate church, profits and society.
Drew admitted that he was a wonderful Methodist, that he had been a profiteer of the Civil War, and that he had starved a railway of rails so that it killed a large number of people in an accident.
Mackenzie was no Methodist; and he never was a profiteer from any emergency of the people.
I repeat that up to a point the profiteer was innocent because he was ignorant; he had been lured on by easy and accommodating events.
And, frankly, the turn of their mind is to tell the child he is not wanted, as the turn of my mind is to tell the profiteer he is not wanted.
So behold in me an active cannery operator when the season opens, a consciencelessprofiteer for sentiment's sake.
They were exponents of a new deal, enemies of the profiteer and the professional politician, and they were thorns in the side of a provincial government which yearned over vested rights as a mother over her ailing babe.
But the profiteerraised his hat, bowed humbly, and stayed to chat for a few moments with the terrible figure, before rejoining his companions.
The fool and the profiteer raised their eyebrows, and passed on, but the priest of Nebt-het touched his forehead and made certain strange signs with his hands, to which Death replied in like manner.
So the priest and the profiteer walked on, but when they had gone a little way, they turned round, and there was the fool sitting at her feet and looking into her eyes as she sang and combed her hair.
And if he had not inherited from a profiteer he would not have been speculating, with a rich chance of more profiteering, in Roumanian oil with Paul Spinner.
And if he had not inherited from a profiteer Sissie would not have taken a share in a dancing studio and might never have dangerously danced with that worm Oswald Morfey.
If he had not inherited from a profiteer he would assuredly have been at his office in the Treasury, earning an honest living, at that very moment.
A capitalistic profiteer is a high brow optimist who lives by the sweat of the low brow pessimist.
But the greed of the profiteer was not yet entirely foiled.
It was not alone a question of meeting the simplest wants of living by the hardest of labor; the voracity of the tax collector and the rapacity of the war profiteer came to know no bounds.
The unmerciful application of the law did not deter the profiteer at all, any more than capital punishment has ever succeeded in totally eradicating murder.
The profiteer found a fine field in the manufacture of shoddy.
Then dinna let your profiteer talk to me of the richts of his money.
Let the profiteer talk o' vested richts and interests--or whine o' them, since he whines mair than he talks.
The profiteer must go; the private owner must go with his dole here and his dole there, generally forced from him as the result of a strike.
