Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle José Hourruitinier waylaid him in the Capitol to ask about getting his daughter restored to a government stenographic job, irascible Arturo Illas savagely caned the old man's head...
...best beloved person in all India. But during the past twelvemonth St. Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India's slipping idol...
...tall, strapping young man in double-breasted suit and soft grey shirt strode from one Department of Commerce conference room to another last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...danger. In their last half, Washington filled the bases with one out and Pinch-hitter Cliff Bolton went to bat. Out from the Giants' bench raced Charley Dressen. a substitute third baseman who had not had his hands on the ball throughout the series. He waylaid Manager Terry. "Play back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word. Bolton burned a drive to shortstop...
...Dwight Fiske's book, all the characters-except a preposterous old woman from Boston (where Without Music should be banned) who goes to Egypt and allows herself to be waylaid by an ostrich-lead decadent sex lives. Characteristically deplorable is the case of Clarissa the Flea who traveled from Vera Cruz to New York on an old tramp. Spanish and nervous, she had no difficulty in working her way into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior...