Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station. There amid jostling notables waited "The Man From Tasmania." famed Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia who has restored the finances of that spendthrift dominion...
...that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central Russia in an atmosphere of shabby nobility and melancholy decay. His father was an attractive spendthrift who lived on memories of the Crimean War, magniloquent hopes for the future, present delusions of his own practical sense. Alexey had the upbringing and the schooling of a reduced gentleman, but there was no career in store for any of the Arseniev sons. Nicholas married and settled down...
While gay Spendthrift Ronald Finney remained in jail, not apparently disturbed by the indictments piling up against him. his father was convicted of embezzling $63.000 from Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank. Last week the elder Finney, long revered as (next to William Allen White) Emporia's leading citizen, was denied a new trial and sentenced to from three to 50 years imprisonment on each of twelve indictments, a staggering sentence of from 36 to 600 years in jail...
...When that Florentine spendthrift Lorenzo the Magnificent held sway over Continental Europe the average diplomat thought there was nothing better in life than a successful lie. The State Department in Washington has not yet learned that there are few things worse in life than a stupid...
...Flatow, Germany. He was a cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II who once boxed his ears, tore the decorations from his uniform, banished him from the army and Germany for beating Princess Louisa Sophie (his wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure...