Word: errant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it takes all the sensible characters in the play to straighten out the situation. Suspense attains impressive proportions as bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than a bagful of funny lines. The role of Karith Barry is so deftly interpreted by Dorothy Burgess that an audience not too sternly realistic will follow the play with sympathy, even...
...surely, Vagabond or not, I must rest a bit. So eleven will discover my errant figure before the gate with the Latin inscriptions improving my mind as Bruin my digestion with a rank pipe. Twelve, however, since I have not the persistence of Socrates (though that's another story), will disclose my last peregrination of any purpose--for I intend to walk back and forth between Harvard 8 and Robinson determining whether Dr. Murdack's lecture on the background of Milton's work or Dean Edgell's on the Early Renaseence in France has the greater attraction. Anyone who wishes...
There are people who ignorantly suppose that the Senate is composed of sedentary gasbags who would prove to be lame ducks in other spheres of rough and tumble. Nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of Senators are temperamentally adventurers, knights-errant, more combatively courageous than fluent. It is quite typical that Raymond T. Baker, having exhausted most forms of excitement, announced last week his candidacy as U. S. Senator from Nevada...
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, and Knight errant for reform in the rules of the Senate, traveled into the fastnesses of New Hampshire, home of Senator George Higgins Moses, protagonist of the Senate rules as they are. At Manchester, he jousted in the lists, setting forth his arguments, many of which were rebuttals to his opponents' replies. This was the substance of his argument tor a strict cloture (closure) rule-i.e., a rule that would enable the Senate to stop debate in order to secure a prompt vote...
...just as forcefully as they impress themselves upon the soldier; still, the romance of war is redeemed by the paltry value of the arid soil the Spanish and Moroccans are fighting over. This is no bating-match between rival nationalities; it is rather a jousting time for lumbering knights-errant...