The salesman was an English major without an M.B.A., a burner of both candle ends, who, in his mid-twenties, submitted to the lure of Wall Street.
His second-in-command, the master of the writing office, had received tenpence, but Henry I increased his wage to 2 shillings and gave him appropriate additions to his allowance of bread, wine, and candle ends.
He can guard a candle-end.
When she came into office, her arts minister, Norman St John-Stendlesslylessly repeated the Thatcherite mantra that there would be no "candle-end economies in the arts". Yet what actually happened?
These cuts, while damaging to the arts, account for just a quarter of one per cent of the deficit reduction achieved over the past four years, which, to quote Margaret Thatcher, is a candle-end economy.
The incoming Tory arts minister, Norman St John Stevas, was an articulate champion of culture who faithfully promised that there would be "no candle-end economies in the arts".
He obviously preferred to use candles, ends of which lay around.
I was a card-carrying, candle-end-burning night owl, meeting tight deadlines after heroic all-nighters and then backing it up the next day with nothing more than a shower and a double shot (sometimes espresso).
She is also said to have had one most curious habit, always carrying with her a candle, the end of which she nibbled incessantly.
They reflect theclimaxof a youth thatwas burningthe candle atboth ends.
