Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another feature of the week in the Kresel inquiry was the revelation that since 1926, no less than 77 young girls had been illegally committed to Bedford Reformatory as wayward minors by magistrates in Women's Court...
...girls, 50 of whom were still in the institution, had been induced to plead guilty to charges without a hearing, a direct violation of the Criminal Code which provides that a wayward minor can be committed only ''by competent evidence upon a hearing." Last week Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's only action in face of innumerable scandals was to consider a blanket pardon for all those jailed because magistrates had ignored...
...distance, harbingers of Woe. The scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among the lily pads...
...curb). Second, that in Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce was finishing its 18th annual convention (TIME, May 5). As the nearest approach to an organized stabilizer of U. S. Business, the Chamber reported its observations (including President Butterworth's description of the recent business cycle as "wayward and fickle") and wrangled over remedies (see p. 15). President Hoover, addressing the Chamber, promised to extend its unofficial efforts by ap pointing another of his famed Federal commissions...
...background of a very ordinary melodrama in which one racketeer shoots another and the blame is almost fixed on a thug who wants to get married and reform. There is a conventionally kind-hearted police officer; a mother (the arcade proprietress) who will do anything to save her wayward son; and a harsh, wisecracking ingenue of the half-world. Deprived of Cleon Throckmorton's literal setting (arcade equipment supplied by B. Madorsky of Brooklyn), the play would provide nothing of unusual interest...