There he had only to be a plutocrat again--a plutocrat called away suddenly on business.
And that is the rule--the second generation of a plutocrat inherits, with his money, the meanness that enabled him to hoard it, but not the scope that enabled him to make it.
The plutocrat of the unhappy tribe of Hue and Cry rose and stretched with a comfortable grunt.
The plutocrat of the house-boat had come up from the beach and had been listening.
The plutocrat sometimes condescended to be jocular with his subordinates.
Ignoring the not very flattering insinuation contained in this last speech, the plutocrat continued to urge her: "You can name your own price if you will do the work," he said.
Yet while he said nothing, the plutocrat was watching his visitor closely from under his thick eyebrows.
The plutocrat was sitting at his desk poring over a mass of papers.
He was more like an American plutocrat when he began; but he has since lost the American simplicity.
And sooner or later, in exact proportion to his intelligence, the English plutocrat began to understand not only that the poor were impotent, but that their impotence had been his only power.
It gradually resulted that the patronage extended by the aristocrat or plutocrat was mainly one of a direct pecuniary nature.
In many cases, if not in most, the Roman aristocrat or plutocrat treated such a retainer as a social inferior.
But you are in the same class with the plutocrat who enjoys the profit on the work of ten or twenty thousand men.
But the worst plutocratof to-day is an angel compared with the mildly vicious men of olden times.
The necessary expense of racing suggests the usefulness, as in an earlier chapter was seen, of the sporting plutocratto the Turf, and hence to the national quadruped generally.
The Bourbon thinks the earth will perish unless Bourbonism governs it; the American Plutocrat thought that America existed simply to enrich him.
The plutocrat and the politician made patriotism sickening by using it to blackjack those who saw skullduggery corrupting our country; and the radical critic made patriotism ridiculous by belittling the nation's past and denying its future.
Looking back at it now, I find a conspicuous error--I failed to bracket the politician with the debunker, the plutocrat with the radical.
Nothing in the past twenty years had prepared America; and the isolationists picked up the weapons of both the plutocrat and the debunker to prevent our understanding our function in a fascist world.
When one is attached to an active American plutocrat in the prime of life one need not have many dull moments.
It might be more than interesting, don't you think, to be minister to the pleasures of a modern plutocrat with a large P.
And that is the rule--the second generation of a plutocrat inherits, with his money, the meanness that enabled him to hoard it, but not the greatness that enabled him to make it.
Justine think he wished to mate her to someplutocrat of his choice?
At the mention of the plutocrat something from the past came back and called him there--a thing so shadowy that, when he turned to interrogate, it eluded him and disappeared.
It might be more than interesting, don't you think, to be minister to the pleasures of a modern plutocrat with a large P?
Do you think that a plutocrat can kiss every poor goil in the shop?
In the marble season he was a plutocrat in taws and agates.
A story in which I rescue a virtuous maiden from a gross plutocrat and marry her, the light dying away on a close-up picture of me bending over her while she holds up a replica of Jack's angel child?
I mean the gross and licentious plutocrat of the red-blooded story.
Looking the plutocrat admirably, he stepped briskly down the pavement of Whitechapel, and when he saw his man in the distance, gave vent to a grunt of pleasure.
While not ready for a revolution by force, he would not take up arms in defense of the prescriptive rights of the plutocrat from the assaults of the proletariat.
The plutocrat homeward totters with diamonds to load his girls, and meanwhile my wife and daughters must struggle along with pearls.
The plutocrat has his chuffer, a minion of greed and pelf; the poor man must weep and suffer, and drive his own car himself.
That we are approaching barbarism may be inferred from the magnificence of the plutocrat and the poverty of the working people.
That crafty plutocrat had been left, in a manner of speaking, on his back.
