riotous living
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While the President chuckled, Reporter Wright explained that "Walter Lippmann says that you have been taking the 35� a week that Mark Sullivan sends you . . . and spending it on riotous living."
From Time Magazine Archive
Those who eluded Scotland Yard for a while had a hellish time, and it is clear that little of the $6,400,000 that is still unaccounted for went towards riotous living.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were content to remain des unis, in M. Rod's phrase, and their union was celebrated by a few weeks of riotous living.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
If a man has wasted years in riotous living, he can never hope to live them over again.
From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman
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