Word: wasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quinn was discouraged by the presence of two large police dogs. There was nothing left for the traveling scholar to do but gather the necessary data and prove to his readers that automobiles in Harvard Square are a menace to all true students--a danger to life and a waster of time at street crossings...
...times been in command of the New York Legislature while Smith was governor, and it is the Legislature that votes appropriation bills. There is a curious game played in New York which consists of the Republican Legislature spending the money and then denouncing Smith as a waster. On the other hand, it is fair to say that Smith's theory of government requires the expenditure of more than an average sum for such purposes as the up-keep of State hospitals and the modernization of prisons, and that in this sense he is a spender rather than a saver...
...that young writers are likely to do their best work when they devote themselves earnestly to the understanding and delineation of character rather than to the framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough...
...Russia, Belgium, stricken France lonow what war, the waster of prosperity, the harbinger of famine and pestilence, can do to plunge a nation into turmoil. Waste, extravagance, restlessness, immorality, and lawlessness are the inevitable results of war. America has felt these reactions only slightly, but all that is necessary to convince anyone of the World War's cost is to consider the statistics. Ten million men, the finest youth of the world, are dust today. Three hundred and sixty billion dollars have been squandered in the madness of strife...