All 48 Uses of
Midas
in
Atlas Shrugged
- But that bastard Midas Mulligan put me through the wringer.†
Chpt 1.10
- Midas Mulligan?†
Chpt 1.10
- Did you know Midas Mulligan?†
Chpt 1.10
- At odd moments, with a sudden sense of uneasiness, she had wondered-as she wondered about the stories of deserted ships found floating at sea or of sourceless lights flashing in the sky-about the disappearance of Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 1.10
- Midas Mulligan had once been the richest and, consequently, the most denounced man in the country.†
Chpt 1.10
- It was rumored that one had to observe a certain unwritten rule when dealing with Midas Mulligan: if an applicant for a loan ever mentioned his personal need or any personal feeling whatever, the interview ended and he was never given another chance to speak to Mr. Mulligan.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Why yes, I can," said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity.†
Chpt 1.10
- His first name had been Michael; when a newspaper columnist of the humanitarian clique nicknamed him Midas Mulligan and the tag stuck to him as an insult, Mulligan appeared in court and petitioned for a legal change of his first name to "Midas."†
Chpt 1.10
- His first name had been Michael; when a newspaper columnist of the humanitarian clique nicknamed him Midas Mulligan and the tag stuck to him as an insult, Mulligan appeared in court and petitioned for a legal change of his first name to "Midas."†
Chpt 1.10
- These were the things Dagny had heard about Midas Mulligan; she had never met him.†
Chpt 1.10
- Seven years ago, Midas Mulligan had vanished.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Midas Mulligan was a vicious bastard with a dollar sign stamped on his heart," said Lee Hunsacker, in the fumes of the acrid stew.†
Chpt 1.10
- So we went to court, and we testified about the bad breaks we'd all had in the past, and I quoted Mulligan saying that I couldn't even own a vegetable pushcart, and we proved that all the members of the Amalgamated Service corporation had no prestige, no credit, no way to make a living —and, therefore, the purchase of the motor factory was our only chance of livelihood-and, therefore, Midas Mulligan had no right to discriminate against us-and, therefore, we were entitled to demand a loan from him under the law.†
Chpt 1.10
- He just sat there all through the trial like a marble statue-like one of those blindfolded marble statues, At the end, he instructed the jury to bring in a verdict in favor of Midas Mulligan-and he said some very harsh things about me and my partners.†
Chpt 1.10
- No-thought Dagny-no, apart from the sickening feeling it gave her, this case was not much worse than any of the other things that Midas Mulligan had borne for years.†
Chpt 1.10
- Do you remember Midas Mulligan of Chicago?†
Chpt 2.7
- "Miss Taggart, may I present Midas Mulligan?" said Galt.†
Chpt 3.1
- Why, Midas met us at the landing field, drove me to my house and took Daniels with him.†
Chpt 3.1
- "Midas told me that Miss Taggart has to be treated for shock," he said, "not for the one sustained, but for the ones to come."†
Chpt 3.1 *
- Midas Mulligan said that you work here.†
Chpt 3.1
- Hello, Midas?†
Chpt 3.1
- Isn't he great-Midas Mulligan?†
Chpt 3.1
- She sat by Galt's side as he drove, skirting the town, to Midas Mulligan's house.†
Chpt 3.1
- But that tractor has cut an eight-hour workday down to four hours on"—the straight line of his arm, extended to point across the valley, moved like a royal scepter; her eyes followed it and she saw the terraced green of hanging gardens on a distant mountainside—"the chicken and dairy farm of Judge Narragansett"—his arm moved slowly to a long, flat stretch of greenish gold at the foot of a canyon, then to a band of violent green—"in the wheat fields and tobacco patch of Midas Mulligan"—his arm rose to a granite flank striped by glistening tiers of leaves—"in the orchards of Richard Halley."†
Chpt 3.1
- Midas called two doctors immediately-Hendricks for you, and me for your plane.†
Chpt 3.1
- Did you ever know Midas Mulligan to make a bad investment?†
Chpt 3.1
- Who's the Company, besides Midas Mulligan?" she asked.†
Chpt 3.1
- It's minted by Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- After a while, she asked, in the tone of a dryly statistical inquiry, "How much of a fortune has Midas Mulligan amassed in this valley?"†
Chpt 3.1
- Midas Mulligan met them at the door.†
Chpt 3.1
- "Gentlemen-Taggart Transcontinental," said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- "You have belonged here for a long time, Miss Taggart," said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- "Shut up," said Midas Mulligan, looking at her bowed head with anxious concern.†
Chpt 3.1
- "My business, Miss Taggart?" said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- "Dr. Akston quit on the principle of sound banking," said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- Then Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- It's the destruction of Colorado that started the growth of this valley," said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.1
- Wait till Midas sees the amount I have to deposit.†
Chpt 3.2
- I got off and spent the night hitchhiking my way to Colorado, bumming rides on trucks, on buggies, on horse carts, to get there on time-to get to our meeting place, I mean, where we gather for Midas' ferry plane to pick us up and bring us here.†
Chpt 3.2
- I was the first man to whom Midas sold land in this valley.†
Chpt 3.2
- "If you change your mind," said Francisco, "I'll hire you on the spot—or Midas will give you a loan in five minutes to finance that railroad, if you want to own it yourself."†
Chpt 3.2
- They parted at the bottom of the trail; he went to keep an appointment with Midas Mulligan, while she went to Hammond's Market with a list of items for the evening's dinner as the sole concern of her world.†
Chpt 3.2
- She looked at the faces of the four men in the soft twilight of Mulligan's living room: Galt, whose face had the serene, impersonal attentiveness of a scientist-Francisco, whose face was made expressionless by the hint of a smile, the kind of smile that would fit either answerHugh Akston who looked compassionately gentle-Midas Mulligan, who had asked the question with no touch of rancor in his voice.†
Chpt 3.2
- "Let it go till day after tomorrow, Miss Taggart," said Midas Mulligan.†
Chpt 3.2
- "You're leaving as our friend," said Midas Mulligan, "and we'll be fighting everything you'll do, because we know you're wrong, but it's not you that we'll be damning."†
Chpt 3.2
- It had grown dark, when they left Midas Mulligan's.†
Chpt 3.2
- On the royalties Midas Mulligan pays me for his powerhouse, for the ray screen, for the radio transmitter and a few other jobs of that kind.†
Chpt 3.8
- Midas Mulligan sat at his desk, with a map and a column of figures before him.†
Chpt 3.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(Midas) Greek mythology: the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, Midas can refer to other people, places, or things with that name.