Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge of women," was the first magistrate to be ousted as a result of Samuel Seabury's investigation of Manhattan's inferior courts.* She was convicted on five counts: 1) altering the stenographic record of a case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office...
...Young Sinners), who sets great store by his heroine's virginity, strives to make it appear that she is just a curious, impetuous, innocent little soul who needs freedom, not the repression of her dour aunt's household. For two acts the virgin is enamored of a wayward novelist. Her fiance had hoped that the novelist would shock and all but seduce the little girl, scare her into his secure arms. There are a few hitches to the scheme, but the plan ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference...
...Tibbetts, one of the Seabury legal terriers. In one instance a Methodist Deaconess had brought a 20-year-old Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave as good as she received. But yeast proved her undoing...
...your issue of Feb. 9 I noticed among your British news-"Up spoke Wayward Winnie who has long sought to wrest leadership of the Conservative Party from Baldwin...
...days later wayward Winnie wrote a letter to phlegmatic Stanley, resigning from Baldwin's Conservative Committee, known to newswriters as the "Shadow Cabinet." Commented New York Times Correspondent Charles A. Selden...