Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zero hour of 7 o'clock drew closer the leaderless suicide squad took the initiative and laid a trap for their wayward choice for Swami. Five minutes before the scheduled burning, they waylaid him and made him prisoner...
...writes of Manhattan theatrical boardinghouse life a generation ago. The characters-Aline, her weak father, her patient mother, her wayward aunt-are engaging not merely as characters, but also as vehicles for an elegant, painter-like style: the morally deaf and helpless Aunt Nana, for instance, is a solid, touching characterization. But far more-as witness her crossing a street-she is a Renoir...
...seasoned as the film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells...
Though the tuna were running two weeks earlier than ever before, fishers and packers were thankful that they were running at all. For the albacore, which is the U. S.'s finest eating tuna, is a wayward fish. Sometimes mistaken for a porpoise, he was until a few years ago the prize of the California fishers' catch. Then he disappeared from those waters." In 1935 famed stubble-headed Oceanographer Dr. Thomas Gordon Thompson, aboard his floating laboratory Catalyst, spied schools of albacore in the warm, blue waters of the Japanese Current 100 miles off the Oregon-Washington coast...
Died. Wilhelm Stekel, 72, refugee Viennese psychoanalyst, wayward disciple of Sigmund Freud, author of Nervous Anxiety States, Sadism and Masochism; in London...