Word: squanderings
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...children of the rainbow are 20-year-old Ches Macnamara, a saddler's son, and his friend Finn Dillon, whose studded belt marks him as "Prince of Cloone," the tiny village in which they live. Poor men's sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest...
...Greek, Latin and the great books. At 14, he was sent Grand Touring for five years. In a chain of letters, the earl alternately lashed the boy into study and lectured him on the art of being worldlywise. "For God's sake, my dear boy, do not squander away one moment of your time ... I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time, that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets...
...going to squander our limited resources to the point of our own inevitable exhaustion or adopt common-sense policies of frugality which will insure financial stability in our times and a worthwhile heritage in that of our progeny...
...foolish not to take advantage of it, isn't he?" Farmer Booth was worried about the Government and "all that debt." Said he: "My advice to the people in Washington is to stop spending so much money. They don't spend it, they squander it. They squander part of it on the farmers ... but the farmers figure if they squander for everybody we might as well get our share because we'll all have to make it up one of these days. I've been looking for something to happen before. It won't happen...
...Unpremeditated Folly." In Britain, which only a fortnight ago had seen anti-Semitic riots, there were wide expressions of sympathy for the refugees. Commented the Manchester Guardian: "World opinion will be shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...