| James Redding Ware - 1909 - 288 oldal
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| 1911 - 688 oldal
...109, 179).— The passage in Washington Irving alluded to in the query appears to be the following : " The ' almighty dollar,' that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages " (Washington Irving, ' Creole Village,' quoted in Barrere and Leland's ' Slang Dictionary,' i. 31).... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 oldal
...applaud myself at home, when I contemplate the money in my chest. HORACE — Satires. I. 1. 66. 23 The almighty dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. WASHINGTON IRVING — Creole Village. In Wolfert's Roost. Appeared in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov., 1836.... | |
| Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 oldal
...seems to have been the first to use this expression which has become a byword for American materialism. The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. . . . W. Irving: WalJcrC, Roott, Creole Village (1837). BE Woolf was the author of a successful comedy... | |
| Frederic Jennings Haskin - 1926 - 512 oldal
...phrase almighty dollar? JWC A. It is attributed to Washington Irving. In The Creole Village he says: "The almighty dollar, that great object of universal...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages." Q. What is the origin of the expression key to the city? CBS A. The key to the city is simply a figurative... | |
| Frederic Jennings Haskin - 1926 - 514 oldal
...attributed to Washington Irving. In The Creole Village he says: "The almighty dollar, that great obiect of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to...have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages." Q. What is the origin of the expression key to the city? CBS A. The key to the city is simply a figurative... | |
| Frank Chapin Bray - 1937 - 330 oldal
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| Willard Thorp - 1941 - 918 oldal
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