Word: spendthrift
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...library were the rowdy etchings of James Gillray; he and his bibulous contemporary Thomas Rowlandson had fathered English cartooning. Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians. Rowlandson's needle-sharp stylus had deflated many a Regency swell and belle...
...Spendthrift. On the day Lord wrote, Argentina's total gold and foreign exchange dropped below the amount of money in circulation, for the first time in eight years, Argentina, which had been fat with the profits of selling foodstuffs to a hungry world, had splurged like the most reckless Argentine playboy. A U.S. machinery salesman who had hoped to sell the Argentine Government 20 units was amazed when he easily sold 400, is still trying to figure out how the Government can use them...
Died. The Duke of Manchester, 69, jolly, roly-poly, spectacularly spendthrift British peer, 18th in rank of Britain's 26 nonroyal dukes, veteran of many a day in court (three bankruptcy trials), several in jail (for fraud: he was convicted, later acquitted of pawning his mother's jewels); in Seaford, England...
...Spendthrift. What Premier Garson, one of the few non-farmers to head the farmer government of Manitoba, wanted to do now was to exploit the northland, add a few amenities to farm life. He proposed to spend...
Dogged Manitoban farmers know that Garson, who came into the premiership after a tight-fisted stint as provincial treasurer, is no spendthrift. If he was convinced that now was the time to splurge and make Manitoba a more prosperous province, they" were ready to give him what he wants...