Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
Prides of Atlantic City, N. J. are its seven-mile boardwalk along the ocean front and the special force of 24 patrolmen whose chief duty it is to see that visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...
...Trlomphe, from which dangles a heavy medallion. Young Guy comes gleefully in to tell his hated failure that the scuttled ship has been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle is rent in twain...
...happy idea for his book. "And I said to myself: If I were allowed to write one more novel only, what would I say, what would I put into it? I would resurrect my life, make it live, before my existence comes to an end on this strange and wayward star, resurrect my life while I am dying." Expanding on this theme as the ball proceeds around him, he relates to Bonzo what Resurrection...
...time dawn ends the ball, the book is practically finished: Gerhardi has resurrected his life, while London society, while the recollections of his travels, loves, adventures dance about him. Readers who find themselves puzzled by Author Gerhardi's wayward intelligence, unable to place him satisfactorily, will do well to take him as he comes, wrinkle no foreheads over the question of his "sincerity." Though his unrelieved company in the guise of human soul may be at times a little wearing, as a wide-eyed observer his comments are never dull. Confessing his inability to make the most of sightseeing...