Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a time it is folly to make use of our resources in any other way save to promote that cause which we have undertaken, as an earnest nation, with our whole hearts. We have no surplus for the spendthrift ways of riches. It is folly to waste in even the least degree that natural fertility with which we are entrusted as warders for less fortunate peoples. And the folly of nations may well be the most evil of sins...
...performed in Boston,--writes the tragedy of a wife's prodigality and deceitfulness. But Mr. Brock has excelled the professional author, who could not resist the temptation of ruining a good subject by melodramatic treatment. the action of "The Bank Account" is never forced; its characterization, especially of the spendthrift Lottie, is firm and clear; and its dialogue is an extraordinarily faithful rendering of the language of the "three decker" apartment house. The play will be appreciated by anyone who can sympathize with the sorrows of ordinary life as portrayed in a frank but not cynical tragedy...
...young and noble spendthrift with a tenor voice became engaged to a flighty princess who is one of his guests at "Liberty Hall". He is the heir apparent to a wealthy bachelor uncle, but is suddenly informed that he is penniless because his uncle has married and is the proud father of a son. The princess jilts him when she learns the news, as do all his friends, with the exception of the daughter of his housekeeper. After many trials, this lady falls into his arms just in time for the finale...