Word: spendthrift
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Whoever wanted to send the Senators that message certainly could not be characterized as a spendthrift. The envelopes carrying the blast were franked with a privately printed stamp picturing a pair of hands held in prayer, the American flag and the inscriptions...
SIEUTH IS BOTH a suspenseful British thriller, and a clever satire that up-ends all time honored deadbody-in-the-rose-bed conventions. The impoverished Italian, desperate for money to support his spendthrift lover, doesn't ever steal anything. The aristocratic husband, bearing the cross of cuckoldry on his corpulent frame, shoots him squarely through the head but no one ever dies. When the crusty, provincial detective scrapes dried blood from the bannister, he really isn't looking for a murder victim. With the mystery at the brink of solution--and this is the biggest bluff of all--it appears...
...lady's own life has often been less than blithe. Her one marriage, to Sir Robert Peel-a reckless spendthrift descended from the Prime Minister who gave his nickname "Bobby" to the English policeman-ended unhappily. Her one child, the last Sir Robert, died when his ship was hit by Japanese bombs in 1942. She apparently never considered remarrying and spurned no less a fig ure than Clark Gable. " 'You lost your son, I lost my wife,' " she quotes Gable as saying. " 'Why don't we get married?' I didn...
...slums, and poetry by ghetto children is fawned over in literary circles. Politically, the poor provide votes for liberal candidates, but they are also used by conservatives for making liberalism look unattractive-as it does if its chief beneficiaries can be described convincingly, even if wrongly, as "lazy, spendthrift, dishonest and promiscuous...
...SPENDTHRIFT banker is a threat to the financial stability of his community-especially when his community is the whole non-Communist world. In many respects, the U.S. has adopted the role of global banker: it issues the currency (dollars) that other nations use to pay their bills and store up their savings (in the form of official reserves). Unfortunately, however, the U.S. has developed persistently profligate habits, pouring out more currency than its clients need or want. Some 43.3 billion U.S. dollars are now, in the words of one Congressman, "sloshing around the world...