Word: spendthrifts
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While gay Spendthrift Ronald Finney remained in jail, not apparently disturbed by the indictments piling up against him. his father was convicted of embezzling $63.000 from Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank. Last week the elder Finney, long revered as (next to William Allen White) Emporia's leading citizen, was denied a new trial and sentenced to from three to 50 years imprisonment on each of twelve indictments, a staggering sentence of from 36 to 600 years in jail...
...When that Florentine spendthrift Lorenzo the Magnificent held sway over Continental Europe the average diplomat thought there was nothing better in life than a successful lie. The State Department in Washington has not yet learned that there are few things worse in life than a stupid...
...Flatow, Germany. He was a cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II who once boxed his ears, tore the decorations from his uniform, banished him from the army and Germany for beating Princess Louisa Sophie (his wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure...
Sporting Blood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has to do with a racehorse named Tommy Boy. Bred on a Kentucky farm, he is sold successively to a pot-bellied stable owner, a spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after a misunderstanding with his confreres, his mistress inherits the horse, winters him on the farm where he was bred, enters him in the Kentucky Derby. Gamblers try to fix this race also; but Tommy Boy's owner has a stable boy cut a notch in the reins so that...
...foreign investments, which have dwindled away to the disappearance point. . . . There is no remedy in a manipulation of our banking system, our system of currency or our system of credits. . . . [They] must not be blamed for the present crisis. . . . The confidence of investors has been shattered by the spendthrift policy of our Government...