Word: spendthriftness
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When Charles Dickens was twelve, his spendthrift father was thrown in debtors' prison and little Charles was put to work in a shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
...opposition has accussed me of wanting to end road construction. This is false. What I do want to end is the present excess of spendthrift costs, padded payrolls, and such items as overlaying a structurally strong bridge with useless bricks at high cost, items that are legion today...
...long as they stick to such spendthrift habits, concluded Pinay, France should not expect the government to perform price-cutting miracles. "Ever since Henry IV,* all governments have broken their teeth on this problem [of prices]. The only solution would be an abundance of goods and the restoration of free competition. But things are not that simple, because the customer does not know how to defend himself. On the contrary, he favors high prices...
...saved for the second feature, "Just This Once," which has Janet Leigh in a sweater, a double-feature in itself. This picture takes the fairly standard gimmicks of a lady barrister and a spendthrift young multimillionaire and parlays them, principally by clever dialogue, into an extremely funny story. It is really a better movie than the feature...
...that the basin will eventually be filled to above sea level by the natural seepage of mountain water. Then the sea will no longer try to invade it. The industries and the people who depend on west basin water will never be able to use it at the old spendthrift rate, but at least they can be sure that their wells will not gush salt water...