Word: disarrayed
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...peered querulously up into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...
...haired, affable, plays a fair game of golf at Round Hill Club. For Independent Syndicate Inc. he writes a daily ''Word of Comfort" to be used at the head of obituary notices in newspapers of 30 States. Sample: "Do you feel that your life is in complete disarray and that you are a victim of hopeless bewilderment? Lay hold upon certain pivotal facts: God loves you; the earthly life is preparation for a richer life beyond...
Although both he and Miss Thompson were oppressed by the feeling of being constantly spied upon, and although each tried the experiment of leaving private papers in calculated disarray around their hotel rooms, neither was ever able to detect the slightest tampering with their documentary bait...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...