Why,I've seen Kentuckians who hated whisky,Virginians who weren descended from Pocahontas,Indianians who hadn written a novel,Mexicalls who didn wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams,funny Englishmen,spendthrift Yankees,cold-blooded Southerners,narrow-minded Westerners,and New...
He has no ability, and he is a spendthrift. He is one of those men whom Heaven created to eat and digest four meals a day, to sleep, to fall in love with the first woman that comes to hand, and to fight. He does not understand life. His kind heart, for he has a kind heart,...
Insert a “spendthrift” clause. You could stipulate that the assets in the trust can’t be sued to satisfy debts. In other words, say this person spent a ton of money and got into massive debt. He couldn’t utterly bankrupt himself by sapping up all the trust fund money to pay it ...
Nevin’s nineteenth-century frustration at the Presbyterian situation of his own day, about which he vented in his 1849 Mercersburg Review article “The Sect System”: Take one wing only of the [sectarian] system, the Scotch Secession, which has been accustomed from the first to make the grea...
He had been a borrower and a sponge, and it seemed that if he fell no lower it would be from lack of opportunity. One more chance -- he was saying to himself -- if he had one more stake at the game, he thought he could win; but he had nothing left to sell, and his credit ...
Man looked about at the dimming Galaxies. The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past. Almost all stars were white dwarfs, fading to the end. New stars had been built of the dust between the stars, some by natural processes, some by Man...
Suppose you were the teacher of a class and had a student who was habitually late in the morning. What would you do to correct his tardiness? A Spendthrift A woman suddenly changes her frugal habits and becomes a spendthrift. What must have happened to make her change her behavior? 1.Redu...
She was practical, and he seemed to her to be an absurd spendthrift of these qualities which made him so valuable. He got too little for them. He scattered them with both hands amongst too many people, she thought. He laid no money by. She railed at his poverty, his exploits, his ...
His befuddled29 brain was hopelessly attacking the problem of the future maintenance of himself and his favourite follies30. Of late, old friends of the family had seen to it that he had whereof to eat and a place to sleep -- but whiskey they would not buy for him, and he must have ...