Word: spendthriftness
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...years ago spendthrift Daughter Australia was Mother Britain's second best customer, and the U. S.'s best customer for motor cars and trucks. Today the exuberant young Commonwealth, much sobered down and striving mightily to pay her debts, is Britain's third best customer and the U. S.'s second best for motor vehicles. Australians are also avid consumers of U. S. typewriters. They expect Premier Lyons to rub these facts into Washington's New Dealers and convince President Roosevelt that he should lower the U. S. tariff to favor Australia's wool, wine and wood...
Honest Duchess. The Lords of Appeal, topped by puffy Lord Chief Justice of England Baron Hewart, last week saved from languishing in jail 3% of Britain's dukes-i. e. one,. His Grace the Duke of Manchester, spendthrift extraordinary and bankrupt plenipotentiary...
Certainly not. Mr. Mellon was simply following the example set by his father, the late Judge Thomas Mellon, who gave almost his entire fortune to his children 25 years before he died. "He thought.'' explained Mr. Mellon, "that if there was a spendthrift in the family, the sooner he went through his fortune the better. . . . He told us he wanted to have the satisfaction during his lifetime of seeing how we could manage affairs...
...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...