Word: spendthriftness
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...performed in Boston,--writes the tragedy of a wife's prodigality and deceitfulness. But Mr. Brock has excelled the professional author, who could not resist the temptation of ruining a good subject by melodramatic treatment. the action of "The Bank Account" is never forced; its characterization, especially of the spendthrift Lottie, is firm and clear; and its dialogue is an extraordinarily faithful rendering of the language of the "three decker" apartment house. The play will be appreciated by anyone who can sympathize with the sorrows of ordinary life as portrayed in a frank but not cynical tragedy...
...young and noble spendthrift with a tenor voice became engaged to a flighty princess who is one of his guests at "Liberty Hall". He is the heir apparent to a wealthy bachelor uncle, but is suddenly informed that he is penniless because his uncle has married and is the proud father of a son. The princess jilts him when she learns the news, as do all his friends, with the exception of the daughter of his housekeeper. After many trials, this lady falls into his arms just in time for the finale...
...last week of his stay at the Hollis Mr. John Drew will present Henry Guy Carleton's comedy, "The Butterflies," which was given its initial presentation at the same house last season with marked success. The comedy deals with several interesting social types, and has for its hero a spendthrift Bostonian who rescues a young lady from drowning, and then falls desperately in love with her. The girl's mother repulses the penniless suitor, his creditors pursue him, and he is kept in a peck of trouble, but wins the girl of his choice of course...
...force of this remark will be evident to all. To make the services there as wholesome as possible the authorities seem bound to have them run on an economical manner that each morning a lesson against worldly extravagance may be inculcated in the heart of the spendthrift student. Not content with the saving of 97 cents made by not lighting the lamps in the yard in recess the careful "watch dogs of the treasury" wish to save an additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted...
...fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember to be enough...