Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Author Steinbeck had acquired success and a bank account,† he brooded over his wayward Flat, offered $10,000 to remove it from the Hollywood market. This virtually unheard-of maneuver produced its almost inevitable result: Flat became a movie...
...mischief-making despot fills the house with Chinese, penguins, an octopus, a mummy case, etc. He informs his nurse that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...
According to W. Tudor Gardiner, who instructs the class, judo has not lost face because of its enemy origin. The army approves it as a method used by military police to deal with wayward draftees...
...Guardsman was that the audience never found out whether or not the wife knew it was her husband all the time. M.G.M. makes it painfully clear that she knows it before the picture is half over. The lilt of the Straus score fails to come through the wayward story...
Three years ago, when the cops first caught Knifey stealing, they listed him as a boy of "superior intelligence." Knifey had a flair for mechanics. A home for wayward boys took charge of him, put him on a farm near Momence, 40 miles south of Chicago. There Knifey broke into the home of a neighbor, eccentric old Farmer Henry Allain, who was always pottering about with inventions. So they sent Knifey to St. Charles reform school for boys. A year ago he was paroled for good behavior...