Word: wastrel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wastrel's Billet. Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, 18, was the dreamy, wastrel son of John Canfield Spencer, U.S. Secretary of War under President John Tyler. Thrust into the Navy by his stern father as a last resort, young Playboy Spencer found the ship's discipline and crowded quarters unbearable...
...lecturer, said flatly that history has been giving Frontenac far more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...
...prim, convent-educated London typist, Pierre-Joël Delaitre was all that a storybook French nobleman should be: tall, educated, tastefully dressed, charming, wealthy. To those who knew him better, he was also mean, hot-tempered, pampered, and a wastrel. Reared in luxury at the 18th century Château de Mainténiac, Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup...
...courage of his convictions. He has expounded them in Congress and at banquets of Real Estate Associations for many years. To the Senate Committee scrutinizing his confirmation, he proudly recited his votes against the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Housing Act, keystone of our public housing policy. Even Senator Taft, no wastrel in the housing field, says "he would have preferred a man who had taken no position...
There always comes a time toward the end of the reading period when the enlightened wastrel begins to think less about the subject he is surveying and more about the exam. Even the diligent student becomes less concerned with knowing his courses and more with simply appearing to know. This brings them both around to the problem of how to outwit the grader, a problem which is met in one of three ways: 1. By appealing to his vanity as a scholar, which makes it difficult for him to admit that he doesn't know exactly what you are talking...