They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.

All this publishing activity, however, was in part driven by the need for money.

Most famously, Riggs Bank, in Washington D. C., was prosecuted and functionally driven out of business as a result of its failure to apply proper money laundering controls, particularly as it related to foreign political figures.

In Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly you still find the scheme of a pair of heroes vs. a villain but it is somewhat relaxed, as here all three parties were driven by a money motive.

Harding's Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, ordered a study that claimed to demonstrate that as income tax rates were increased, money was driven underground or abroad.

Commedia would not have the true commedia-essence without the eternally bitter Pantalone, driven to protect and control the money and keep the lovers apart.

The bride-wain, the wagon in which the bride was driven to her new home, gave its name to the weddings of any poor deserving couple, who drove a " wain " round the village, collecting small sums of money or articles of furniture towards their housekeeping.

He ate reasonably and did not use his money on being driven around.

Most were driven by the private sector, but many, including HUD projects, used public money.

It was widely assumed by the Establishment that she was driven by love of money or position rather than love for the King.

Critics argue that microcredit has driven poor households into a debt trap, that the money from loans is used for consumption, that men actually use the money for which their female relatives get into debt and that microcredit does not alleviate poverty or improve health and education.

The skyrocketing prices were driven by the high salaries paid to pipeline workers, who were eager to spend their money.

These projects in the city driven by the recent mayors have achieved this goal after investing large sums of money.

In his turn, Allen stated that they had stolen a car in Preston and driven over to West's house so that Evans could " borrow " some money from his one-time workmate.

The two men had much in common, as they were each conservative, hard-working and energetic, and driven to make money.

Desperate for money, the band members were driven to the extreme of participating as human guinea pigs in medical experiments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, earning them a place on a TV documentary about the desperation of fallen rock stars.

The idea is to move money out of the big banks and into more community driven financial institutions.

A ruthless and greedy financier, his name is still used in France as a byword for corporate or plutocratic figures driven by lust for money.

Scholar Bradford A. Booth suggested in 1938 that Clairmont, driven by a need for money, might have been the true author of most of " The Pole ," an 1830 short story that appeared in the magazine The Court Assembly and Belle Assemblée as by " The Author of Frankenstein " Unlike Mary Shelley, Clairmont was familiar with the Polish used in the story.

For one, he was driven to literary duties that would make him money, notably his controversial role as editor of The Conchologist's First Book in April 1839.

Nevertheless most light railways never made much money and by the 1930s were being driven out of business by the motor car.

The driven, and conflicted young man lived a dual existence, during the day he ran the Taylor Foundation, and at night he relentlessly trained himself to human perfection, and studied with the best private tutors money could buy.

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

`` Diane is the type of girl '', Jelke said, `` who wouldn't get loving -- even on her wedding night -- unless you piled up all your money in the middle of the floor ''.

Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.

To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.

The Georgia Legislature will wind up its 1961 session Monday and head for home -- where some of the highway bond money it approved will follow shortly.

The schools could use the money to pay 4-year scholarships, based on need, of up to $2,000 a year per student.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

Although Beavis and Butt-Head greatly admire him and aspire to join his " gang ," Todd despises the two and frequently beats them up and takes advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, food or a place to hide from other gangs or the police.

However, in " A Great Day " Todd does thank the duo for giving him some gas money, and he allows them to watch him beat up someone who bumped into his car.

Either she has sold herself into slavery for debt, or she is with a lover who demands money in order to give her up, because Hosea has to buy her back.

There was not enough money to put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the other streets are nearly all still standing.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

In more recent years, they have stepped up the fight against money laundering, by limiting banking secrecy, introducing requirements for customer identification and record keeping, and requiring banks to cooperate with foreign investigators.

With coins, banknotes make up the cash form of all money.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

: They'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.

* Record Attendance: 49, 335 v Millwall, 8 October 1938-Division Two ( attendances up until the 1970s were notorious for being inaccuarate with specatators sneaking in, or being hustled in for boot money )

With most of his money tied up in the Indians, Veeck was forced to sell the team to a syndicate headed by insurance magnate Ellis Ryan.

In this way, jobs may be saved, the ( previously mismanaged ) engine of profitability which is the business is maintained ( presumably under better management ) rather than being dismantled, and, as a proponent of a chapter 11 plan is required to demonstrate as a precursor to plan confirmation, the business's creditors end up with more money than they would in a Chapter 7 liquidation.

In the present day, coins and banknotes make up currency, the cash forms of all modern money systems.

Though he spent some of his money trying to clean up swamps and eradicate malaria, he was nonetheless sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror as an enemy of the people.

Although he doled out offices, money, and titles mainly to Christian highlanders in the hope of co-opting would-be Eritrean opponents in early 1967, the imperial secret police of Ethiopia also set up a wide network of informants in Eritrea and conducted disappearances, intimidations and assassinations among the same populace driving several prominent political figures into exile.

Since reunification, the German government has spent vast amounts of money on reintegrating the two halves of the city and bringing services and infrastructure in the former East Berlin up to the standard established in West Berlin.