Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps The Wayward Saint might best be described in terms of its theatrical ancestry. Certainly author Paul Vincent Carroll owes something to the Faust legend, since his comic-fantasy is based on the time-worn duel between heaven and hell for another eligible soul. The owner of the soul, however, is a simple Irish priest, Cannon Daniel McCooey, whose origins could no doubt be traced to Going...
Novelist John Steinbeck; whose earlier fondness for battered ground vehicles crept out in some of his books (e.g., The Grapes of Wrath, The Wayward Bus), disclosed that he is about to switch to a more advanced means of transportation. Stopping over on the French Riviera on his way to Italy, Steinbeck, minus his mustache "for a change," announced that he will write a play about flying saucers, because these strange craft "symbolize . . . the disquiet of the world today." Added he soberly: "From this idea, I let my heroes go in their attempt to escape the earth. They...
...supports. Immediately following the Capper's article, the Hall County Farm Bureau attacked Mitchell and appointed a committee of three to see the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, at which Mitchell is chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics with instructions to try to muzzle the wayward professor and to "take any further action they deem advisable...
Koussevitzky Plays the Double Bass (Victor). Out of the wayward past (1929) comes the echo of Conductor Koussevitzky's first love, the bull fiddle. In these six pieces (three of them his own compositions), the instrument sounds like a husky cello, dark and sentimental, and it moves like a fat man on a dance floor, bulky but often surprisingly graceful...
There is also the matter of tracing wayward luggage and sometimes replacing lost tickets. There was the case of two travelers, for instance, who had to get new tickets midway through a business trip. They had stopped to enjoy some duck hunting, got caught in a downpour and their tickets had disintegrated. Another traveler sheepishly explained why he needed another set of tickets: he had left the first set in his shirt pocket, tossed the shirt into the washing machine...