Word: wastrel
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...office superseded the local District Attorney. The wheels of justice were promptly set in motion. The prosecution secured another indictment from the new Grand Jury, on the theory that Peters was a poor boy, slain for some sinister reason by Ward, who was pictured as a wanton, wealthy wastrel...
Elsie. Just another musical comedy, picked, it would seem, at random from the patent filing case of girl and musical entertainment. The plot, formula 7-B, concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical...
...college man has been noted since the wastrel days of the Goliards as a bacchant of the first degree. How much truth and how much poetical tradition there is in this reputation it is rather difficult to say. It is sufficiently true that each succeeding generation during its four short years of life endeavors through the medium of a few picked individuals to maintain the glory of the vine...