Word: squander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese spinsters, too, are making hay. Hundreds of them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip...
...built around two colleges fellows who are left a legacy of $50,000 by an eccentric uncle. By the terms of the will, if they lose the money by legitimate business means within a month, they will receive the rest of the uncle's millions. Their futile attempts to squander the money by buying a night club and trying to make it a failure make up the rest of the action...
...priced too high, they cannot be sold, and the price will have to drop. What good will it do Italy, Japan and Germany to control colonies and supplies of raw materials? Japan excepted, none of them has sufficient capital to develop colonial industries. Yet each is prepared to squander millions on colonial wars, to obtain goods they can already get, from countries with years of experience in producing them...
...risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns he coined riches faster than he could squander them on journeys which sent him roaming, thrilling and writing all over the world. Having absolutely rejected Kim at any price, Mr. Samuel Sidney McClure suddenly thought himself lucky to secure the serial rights alone...
Audiences never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...