Word: wildcatted
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...insatiable taste for living de luxe. Nobody seemed to know just where she came from, but all her women friends were quite certain of her ultimate destination. So when the Marquis and she, financially ruined and forced to leave Paris on account of the collapse of a wildcat series of projects in which the Marquis had been a dummy director, arrived in the wilds of the Argentine, under the protection of engineer Robledo, a friend of the Marquis' youth, you can imagine what a mellow apple of discord Elena proved...
...part of Great Britain", and even for a perpetual motion wheel, capitalized at a million pounds. Contemporaneously in France, Law's expansive scheme for exploiting the Mississippi. Valley collapsed, sweeping French aristocracy into bankruptcy. In more recent times there have been as many notorious, if not as comprehensive, wildcat projects culminating in "520 per cent Miller" and "Miracle Ponzi...
...United States, this bureau has already exposed a number of "blind pools" which have absorbed the savings of thousands of ignorant and gullible persons. A product of the war but no longer promoted by patriotism to put their money into savings stamps, these "investors" have fallen easy prey to wildcat promoters...
...comprehensive information service. In addition to newspaper publicity, the Bureau plans to reach the people through banks, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, labor organizations, and large mercantile institutions. By thus plugging thus plugging the hole in the dyke, the Bureau will divert millions of dollars yearly from the wildcat whirlpool and gradually drive the "Ponzi" specie of wizard from finance...
...striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East bound down by tradition will wonder why the professor didn't leave it to the furnace-man to express it in just that way. --The Boston Transcript...