Word: decrepit
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...brandy business, devastated by the war. In two short years he had it bubbling money again, then went wandering as an international banker and economic troubleshooter. He spent a year (1933-34) in Peking as financial adviser to the Chinese government, raised money to repair China's vast, decrepit railroad system. He opened a Wall Street brokerage house, made a fortune and lost it in the 1929 crash. The Polish government called him in to plan a currency reform it never carried out. The Swedish government appointed Monnet one of the liquidators of the complex, bankrupt Kreuger match empire...
...strip in the East River, north of the U.N., between Long Island and Manhattan, Welfare Island was once a penitentiary, now is occupied by nurses' homes, hospitals for the aged and poor, and homes for wayward girls. Apart from the institutions, the island is a ramshackle glob of decrepit buildings, weeds and trash. The plan, sponsored by wealthy Real Estate Operator Roger L. Stevens and Financier Frederick Richmond, is to tear down everything on the island except one hospital and to build a concrete platform, 22 feet high, over most of the land. On top of the platform would...
...teachers was the government's earmarking of $40 million-$60 million to pay 30,000 teachers in Catholic parochial schools-while it offered public school teachers only a $32 million raise. By such tactics as refusing to mark report cards, the fiercely anticlerical teachers have focused attention on decrepit buildings, overcrowded classrooms and minuscule salaries (even in costly Paris, a $200 monthly top for grade-school teachers...
...German days Grosz could be outrageous at times, but always he was outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life...
Anyone! Anyone! is a delight, delicately treading the line between a blaring SIGNIFICANCE and a clever, amusing self-mockery. Arthur and Junior are two decrepit old men, trying to save their ramshackle house from destruction...