pelf

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It borrowed until it couldn't borrow anymore to pay for a slew of programs, public employee pensions and other pelf it couldn't afford.

From US News • May 26, 2016

They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still not completely sure what pelf is, the owners have put him in charge of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes� about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf.

From Time Magazine Archive

We know how many men give up their mental independence for the sake of pelf and power.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green