Word: spendthrift
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...Rejected Woman. Interesting results have been attained here despite the fact that the story runs for over two reels before the director seems aware of it. Whenever he fancies the audience is tired of palatial drawing rooms, he shoots them a few snow scenes. A young spendthrift (Conrad Nagel) is forced to land in his airplane in Canada. He falls in love with the inevitable backwoods beauty (Alma Rubens). When she is ashamed to be seen in the best circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation...
...Moliere's L'Avare (The Miser), that barbed satire on French thrift, the visiting star's abundant sense of the ludicrous makes the hoarding old wretch a spendthrift of merriment, a caricature instead of a nightmare. Similarly, in Octave Mirbeau's play about business his funnybone seems constantly elbowing out the dramatic elements. Instead of suggesting the ironhanded vulgarian of a millionaire, whose god is business, De Feraudy reminds one of Mr. Jiggs in the comic supplement series, Bringing Up Father. In an intense scene he puts his finger on a rocking wine bottle...
Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...
...story is not much different from many others that have been seen in musical comedy before. Stanton is a happy-go-lucky spendthrift who loses both his money and girl at one time. He is deceived by Arthur Cadman, her fiancee, who also is doing a dubious business with Darcy's money. By a little detective work, Stanton follows the Darcy family to Palm Beach, where he discloses the plot of Valera Valador, played by Miss Francesco Rotoli,--who attempts to involve Stanton in former shady connections with her, although Cadman had really been the deceiver. When Cadman's evil...
...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...