Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wayward Wit. Six years ago loquacious Jimmy was hauled into New York's Supreme Court, charged with libeling a state boxing commissioner. In a burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has a wayward wit. . . . He is engaged in a business that is mostly ballyhoo." Few people remember that the man in the iron hat managed five world champions...
Rebel-Rouser. In his yellow brick headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea district, next door to a home for wayward girls and across the street from the General Theological Seminary, Croly assembled a motley crew of insurrectionists. Into his journal went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number...
...York Times's Brooks Atkinson, an old professional playgoer himself, blandly drew the moral: "The wayward leaders of the Moscow Art Theater at least have learned the importance of being earnest...
...been to back up the strong talk of the State Department. (Said Frank Knox to Admiral Richardson: "We have never been ready but we have always won.") Where liaison did exist between departments, it had been almost by accident. Army, Navy, State and White House had gone their various wayward ways, until the climax of mistakes on that Sunday morning on Oahu...
Where rivulets dance their wayward...