Word: errants
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...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...
...English company from the Haymarket Theatre migrated to Manhattan for the occasion. Joyce Barbour, she of the errant affections, is both beautiful and accomplished in her craft. Leo G. Forbes and Ralph Forbes combine the severity and simplicity of bitter emotion with distinction...
When Does the Goose Creep Into the Flesh? It was nearly half past three in the morning. Somewhere a clock tolled the hour-twelve long strokes. Down the shadow-shrouded stairway moved a skeleton, clad only in a pair of violet pajamas. Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into...
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has an enviable reputation as a " denouncer." A knight errant in the cause of righteousness and organized labor (American Federation plan), he scarcely lets a week go by without attacking some organization as being inimical to the United States and the Federation. Last week he denounced Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works as a feudal autocrat because he espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that...
...Lawrence writes brilliantly: his style is his own and it is rarely a dull one. His stories are not slovenly. Most of his characters are real at times. The plots are ingenious as in "Samson and Delilah" where an errant husband turns up unexpectedly after fifteen years. He has humour as in "Monkey Nuts...