Word: errantly
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...their toughest challenges. Once again they had discovered that terrified witnesses rarely provide reliable descriptions. The series of sketches drawn by police artists from such fragmentary impressions turned out to be off the mark -actually hindering police work by inviting people to name suspects bearing likenesses to the errant drawings, but not to the murderer...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
...Sherlock Bones, and he operates what he believes to be the world's first dogtective agency. Actually, John Keane, 32, a former insurance salesman, will try to track down any lost pet in the San Francisco Bay Area-and to date has been retained to find an errant parakeet and a strayed horse, as well as hundreds of Fidos and felines. The strapping ex-Marine is aided by Paco, an old English sheep dog who wears a deerstalker hat and slurps champagne, and by a legion of kindly kids whom he calls, naturally the Baker Street Irregulars...
...long ago, the wife of a federal judge asked him to check what her husband was doing while traveling to hear cases. She had the names of the two credit cards he used -enough for Beltrante's sources in the credit card companies to report on the errant judge's one-night stands. Trailing His Honor on a trip, one of Beltrante's agents watched him pick up young men. Later, Beltrante presented the distraught wife with photos of her husband doing just that...
Died. Nat Dorfman, 81, journalist, playwright (Errant Lady, Take My Tip) and press agent who represented more than 300 Broadway shows; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dorfman began working as a press agent in 1920, and later wrote a humorous column for the King Features Syndicate. Dorfman retired last January after 17 years with the New York City Opera...