Word: wastrel
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...family name, her brother, her father, the man she used to love-have failed her. She will be sorry to die but not unready. In 1930 the last of her idols falls. From his cheap French widow Sara hears the truth about her beloved brother: he was a wastrel who died a drunkard's death. In 1929 she sees for the last time the fiance who jilted her but with whom she has always been in love. A onetime ambassador now, a rich man of the world, he breaks another idol when he tells...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...
...luck if the outgoing government happens to be shoving into the lap of the new Premier a huge budgetary deficit. Four years ago Rumania's National Peasant Party won an election under such conditions, restored comparative financial order and was later ousted by King Carol and wastrel politicians who squandered what the Peasant Government had saved...
Last week, with Rumania in a tighter financial corner than ever, the National Peasant Party won the election again-or was "allowed to win it" as Rumanian cynics observed. Wastrel King Carol at once called on Peasant Party Leader Professor Juliu Maniu, asked him to be Premier again...
...story of a young florist so unsophisticated that U. S. audiences will find it hard to believe him a Parisian. When he marries Marceline, the cast-off mistress of a friend, he takes her sulky neglect as a matter of course, never guesses at her liaisons, cheerfully supports her wastrel brother Clo-Clo. After four years of this. Marceline entrains for Nice with the latest of her lovers. Clo-Clo stays to break the news...