Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he commands record fees, Dominguin, no spendthrift, does not particularly need the money; he returned to the ring, he says, out of "curiosity" and because "one does what one feels he has to do." At Maracay he found that he fought "with more pleasure than ever. Now I fight because I like...
Chandler treats Combs with contempt, never refers to him by name ("Of course, Clementine picked this unsuspecting little fellow to run for governor"). Chandler described Wetherby as a spendthrift tosspot, dangling on Clements' string: "Clementine just picks up his telephone in Washington and tells that little Hitler down in Frankfort what...
...Wilde's works are those that reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
...published work includes "Cases on Federal Taxation" and "Spendthrift Trusts...
When Charles Dickens was twelve, his spendthrift father was thrown in debtors' prison and little Charles was put to work in a shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...