Word: wastrel
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...decadent, sportive wastrel, without tact or any conception of the dignity of his office, Clément disgraced the name of Sanson by establishing a museum of horrors in his home, where for five francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
...balanced liberal Democrat in the Senate and its most impressive freshman in years. He is a humanitarian who does not believe government should do all things for all men, a maverick liberal who also insists on prudent spending ("To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel") An ex-professor, and a veteran of Chicago's rough & tumble city council, he has the economist-sociologist mind, a notable capacity for collecting, sifting and appraising facts...
...This is not a matter of liberalism versus conservatism. To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel . . . The budget issue is simply one of arithmetic and logic...
...young Edward's sake, Arnold Holt commits arson, practices blackmail, ditches his mistress, makes a wreck of his wife, blarneys the girl Edward has got with child. Edward himself, not much good to begin with and monstrously spoiled, turns into a wastrel who is killed...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...