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Updated: July 12, 2025
Old Poynter is a pirate, an unscrupulous, money-mad, villainous old pirate and he did something or other most unpleasant to Dad in Wall Street. And would you believe it, Susanne, Philip went fuming off huffily to some ridiculous little mountain kingdom in Europe that he was awfully keen about Houdania and rented himself out as a secretary to Baron Tregar. Just imagine!
'Mediocre men go soberly on the highroads, but saints and scoundrels meet in the jails," he smilingly quoted. "He would make a queer sort of saint," she laughed. "A typical twentieth century one of a money-mad age."
"It isn't that but I ought to make some money " The word was a challenge to the Judge. "Don't run with the mob, my boy. The world is money-mad." "I'm not money-mad," said Randy; "I know what I should like to do if my life was my own. But it isn't.
It is a curious fever, that which seizes upon the new-comer in an unexploited mining field. Ford was far from being money-mad; but there were times when he could not help contrasting a railroad salary with Miss Adair's millions. True, he had once said to her, in the fulness of confident belief, that the money of the woman he loved would make no difference to her or to him.
And presently the chatter seemed to her to be a maddening repetition of one word, money the central idea in all the thought and all the action of these people. "I must get away," she thought, "or I shall cry out." And she left abruptly, alleging that she must hurry to catch her train. Money-mad! her thoughts ran on. The only test of honor money, and ability and willingness to spend it.
Also for empty Bottles, which he laboriously scoured and delivered at the Drug Store for a mere dribble of Chicken Feed. The sheet of Copper brought a tidy Sum, while old Mrs. Arbuckle wondered what had become of her Wash-Boiler. With a V to his Credit, Aleck put a Padlock on every Pocket in his Store Suit and went Money-Mad.
The beautiful forest suburbs were being planned and plotted by money-mad schemers who neither pre-visioned, nor cared to, the city of the future which was to be a great gateway of the nation to its Panama world-artery.
Forty years before Abraham Lincoln had warned the country when at the close of the war he saw that the race for wealth was already making men and women money-mad. In 1864 he wrote these words: "Yes, we may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its close. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood.
We were both old hands at the business, had each in our time suffered the "cotton-mouth" thirst, and the memory of it outweighed any desire for treasure. But Schwartz was money-mad. Left to himself he would have staid on that sand flat to perish, as certainly as had poor Billy.
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