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Word: wastrel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support Minister Chang's ruling, propaganda mills began grinding out touching stones of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's own hard and difficult struggle as a young revolutionary, much as a capitalist uncle might rebuke a wastrel nephew with stories of his own five-mile hikes through the snow to the little red schoolhouse. Samples: "Chairman Mao's socks were full of holes, his clothes made of rough texture. He ate only two meals of rice and cabbage daily. His comrades urged him to eat more. Chairman Mao would not allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Wash-Up Time | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...reviewer of The Secrets of Caroline Cherie [March 19] ! He writes, "... where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by persuers intent on joining her in union specific." Why didn't this wastrel substitute for "Santa Fe express" "Union Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Tyrone family does not make a pretty picture. The mother (Inga Tidblad) is a dope fiend. The father is an actor (as O'Neill's father was) and a monumental skinflint. Jamie Tyrone is a wastrel and a drunkard like his father, and Edmund (Jarl Kulle), obviously patterned on O'Neill himself, is a consumptive. These four haunted characters spend their long day's journey into night gnawing at each other. They sit around the living room table drinking, talking, baring their minds, hating each other, yet cemented together in one miserable unit of family love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: O'Neill's Last Play | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Familiar to song and story down the ages is the wastrel scion of a fortune-making family. Minot Jelke does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Solid Gold Cad | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...wastrel tradition Mickey shunned work, churned around Manhattan in a powder-blue Cadillac, carried a revolver, kept a bulging file of erotic photographs in his apartment, and lived it up expensively in the glossy glades of café society. So far, so bad. But Mickey couldn't leave it at that. He found employment as a salesman of a commodity he knew a lot about: girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Solid Gold Cad | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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