Word: wastrel
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...NAVY COLT-Frank Gruber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The penniless book agents, Cragg & Fletcher, are linked to the shooting of a Chicago wastrel who owns a museum-piece Colt once toted by Jesse James. Solution of the gun's secret and two murders finds these extraordinary amateur hawkshaws at their best...
...Mecca the arrest was just a local scandal, but to London it smacked at first of important Nazi machinations in the Middle East. Wastrel Abdul Hamid did visit Germany last year. Asserted Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: "The conspiracy to murder King Ibn Saud was hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London...
...Boyg. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is to the Norse what Playwright William Shakespeare is to the British. In his play Peer Gynt, Ibsen's hero, a rustic, wastrel Hamlet, tussles furiously but unsuccessfully with an unseen presence called the Boyg, which may be construed as Peer Gynt's conscience, his better self. The Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether...
Downtown, the President observed the proceedings with interest. Last July his $870,000,000 Spend-Lend bill was killed by this same House on grounds of economy, and he was loudly assailed as a wastrel and profligate. Warily Mr. Roosevelt prepared a trap last week. The bait: Relief. One morning Secretary Steve Early announced that the President would soon send up his spring Relief message, expected to forecast a $1,000,000,000 appropriation for the fiscal year...
...into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without ever railing...