We did our best to keep Dina ignorant of some of the worst stories out concerning Tom's dissipation, but she knew.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Studnitz mentions that several manufacturers in America had informed him that they had invariably remarked, that with solitary exceptions here and there, the men who wrought for the longest number of hours were most prone to dissipation, and that the others were more intelligent, and formed on the whole a better class.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
dissipation and overtime generally go together, but neither of them is a necessary accompaniment of piecework.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae