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Word: errants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Is Suitable. Medieval marriage was more fearful than joyful. Titled gentlemen thought nothing of punching their wives in the face, and ladies were often disfigured for life with broken noses. Husbands were cruelly vindictive to errant wives. When the Dame de Fayel's husband discovered that she kept her dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Amour the Merrier | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...faith and then decided to become a physician, which he eventually did. He became absorbed in a cult, the Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt) as his own. As one of Ellis' women friends subsequently pointed out, it was a perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Omphalosopher of Love | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...during which Sledzziewski's flat 15-foot shot skidded into the left corner of the cage, the Crimson waited for Clarkson--and the breaks--to come its way. After a flurry around the Clarkson nets, the varsity wings would fall back to the blue line and wait until an errant pass came their way again...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Sextet Tops Cornell, Upsets Clarkson, 5-1 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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