He is childless; and, since her illness several years ago, his wife, an untidy woman with beautiful eyes, has been scatterbrained and more trouble than use, a spender of his savings.
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds
She was much too scatterbrained.
"The Last Straw"
William J. Smith
Will you please lay your cane aside, take off your coat, put your hat down and have a chair before you go sweeping Nan off her feet with your scatterbrained ideas.
"Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border"
Annie Roe Carr