dollar-burdened

Updated: June 11, 2025

And that's what we want. She'll be just the thing to carry lumber to New York, via the Canal, when the war ends and the nitrate harvest is over." Cappy Ricks threw up his hands. "You see before you, my boy," he said mournfully, "a dollar-burdened, world-weary old man, who for ten years has been trying to retire from active business, and cannot.

Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne - Cappy Ricks Retires