Word: errants
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...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...course, the foregoing wasn't strictly true in the first half. What with errant center passes flying around the gridiron, and fumbles and penalties tying up the Crimson every time they neared paydirt, it looked as though a count of 7-0 or 14-0 might be on the board when it was all over . . . The scoreboard, incidentally, still isn't functioning fully and a new, automatic, electric job is expected momentarily...
While overconfident La Follette committeemen relaxed, energetic Joe stumped the state wearing his old khaki shirts. He shrewdly wooed conservative farmers with attacks on Washington bureaucrats, skirted the touchy foreign-policy issue, chided his opponent for a long absence from home. Backed by the regular G.O.P. organization he accused errant Progressives of trying to steal the Republican party...
...Knight Errant. In Carmel, Calif., the City Council heard Councilman Allen Knight defend local landlords, then learned its rent had been almost doubled...
Part Score. Dramatically, Part I beats Part II all hollow. It is more tightly knit, it moves with greater speed and swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...