Word: spendthriftness
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...LOVER-Richard Connell-Minion, Batch ($2). Be not dismayed if you hear that this book deals with the spendthrift son of an Irish-American pioneer in a city with slums and polo, like Toledo. Author Connell writes books on transatlantic steamers and French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...
...radiate more sunshine to our fellow men and scatter with a spendthrift hand the seeds of kindness and charity...
...wrote "To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir...
...Marriage Fails. Whenever a picture is called something like that, you can be sure that "society marriages" are in for a nasty beating. This time, the hero finds sincerity and love-impossible in his spendthrift blonde wife-in a slim and rather recently Italian fortune teller. She is Jacqueline Logan and that helps some...