Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit only because they had read news-stories which led them to expect, if not a touch of pornography, at least a large dose of sacrilege or obscenity, were baffled by the thoughtful bearded face of Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing...
...Cintra. She, a steadier but not less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer dazzled his gaze, he returned to his wife, leaving Lilias to pursue her wayward course through a firmament of masculine sparks and fires. Miss Hoyt's writing has the shine together with the unaccountability of planetary motion. Gayly arranging the paths of her spheres, she, like another metaphorical Manipulator of Constellations, makes no explanations. She rules out reasons and motives; indicates that...
...marshes, outlived her husband and her lover to settle down, at last, in serene resignation as mistress of the old farm. Her character is the one real character in the book and, whether, or not it is a complete character, it is the product or presumed product of enough wayward influences to render it interesting...
...desire to give the public a Super-Feature Musical Comedy Satire, as advertised. The funniest thing of all is when the hero, protesting his constant affection for the heroine who is about to leave him and home for Hollywood, suddenly ceases his disconsolate farewell sobbing to administer unto the wayward lass a terrific kick in the pants. An adagio dancing pair, Deenova and Berinoff, amazed and pleased. A more perfectly trained chorus does not kick along Broadway...
...figure of the past remains- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88). Yearly her books are issued; this autumn, in five editions.† Her upright heroines still curtsey at balls, have jolly sledding parties, converse soberly on morals, dismiss wayward suitors, love their families before themselves, suffer sorrow in pious silence...