Word: wastrel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Louis XIII could not foretell was that Louis XIV (Louis Hayward) would grow up into an arrogant wastrel, his brother Philippe of Gascony (Louis Hayward) into a fine broth of a boy, next to his tutor d'Artagnan the best blade in France. Brother Louis at first finds Brother Philippe useful as a decoy for assassins and as a stand-in with his betrothed, the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa (Joan Bennett), while he is dallying with brassy little Louise de la Vallière (Marian Martin...
...unique wastrel against whom the New Life Movement struggled in vain was Chiang Wei-kuo. He is the son of a Japanese waitress & a Chinese official whom Generalissimo Chiang obliged by adopting the lad as his own son. In vain Chiang Wei-kuo was put under the direct control of Mme Chiang. She could do nothing with him. He was sent to Germany, last year suddenly appeared in London and forced the Chinese Delegation to the Coronation of King George VI to get him in on it and on all the best parties...
...entertainment, the story is pleasant enough to follow. All things considered, Mr. Taylor acts convincingly as the rich young wastrel who, after causing one death through his wilfullness, falls in with the Douglas philosophy and, reforming, saves a second life which he might also have wasted through the same wilfullness. More specifically, he becomes the famous eye doctor who restores the sight of female interest and chief stooge Irene Dunne when everyone had said it was impossible...
...March, a lovable, exasperating talented wastrel, depicts only too well the end to which celebrated actors have been known to fall. An habitual drunkard, he descends the ladder of fame as rapidly as Miss Gaynor climbs. Having reformed under his wife's influence, Mr. March has a bad time of it until he swims off into the Pacific, which one soon decides is the best place for him after...
Like most forms of business civilization, fire insurance came late to San Francisco. A wild and wastrel town slapped together on the promise of the Gold Rush, it went up in flames six times between 1849 and 1851 with a total property loss of about $20,000,000. San Francisco gentlemen then organized volunteer fire brigades whose uniforms outdazzled those of the Vigilantes and whose members fought freely for the privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk...