Word: strayed
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Humoresque. Mrs. Sarah Kantor slipped out into the darkness of the ghetto, leaving her husband, one son, and a stray dog asleep in one cot, her daughter in another, and her favorite son whimpering for a violin in another. A few minutes later she reappeared, triumphantly bearing a four-dollar violin...
...Irving Berlin should stray into Hemenway gymnasium some afternoon about five o'clock he would undoubtedly receive the inspiration of his life. He would engage without further reference some few members of the "gym class" on their aesthetic interpretation alone. Not only dancers, but, acrobats, contortionists, weight lifters, dumb-bells, all under one room and operating to music. Nothing lacking but a name. Ah! The Soap Box Revue...
...Greek legend, too, might be reconstructed on this surmise. A stray gate or barn door, with its precious freight, might have traveled even further, and carried to the land of the Hellenes their fabled ancestors. Deucalion and Pyrrha...
...pile of stray mail at University 4 the other day, lay a letter with a foreign stamp in the corner, addressed: "Monsieur J--R--, Belgian student, Harvard University, naer Boston." Somewhere in Belgique a country mam'selle, after struggling heroically to recall that strange address, "Cam----Camb" had given up the attempt, and, putting her faith in the God of Chance and the United States Post Office, had written what she could remember, "naer Boston...
...Manchester Guardian" for History 12 or looking up the "Revue des Mondes", a student misses his way in Widener and finds himself not among the Periodicals but in the Treasure Room. The name connotes musty manuscript and faded antiques, and few but the bewildered individual above ever venture to stray inside. For those who do, however, the sensation of the discovery is like the delight of a mediaeval forebear, who, after journeying across a continent succeeds in handling the forefinger of a saint...