Word: wayward
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...issuing invitations to the caucus, the names of 13 Republican Insurgents were omitted, indicating that in the House as in the Senate, the Republicans intend to outlaw the wayward...
...marries by mail and arrives at the vineyard farm in California to find that her prospective husband, an old Italian, has tricked her by sending in place of his own, the photograph of his youthful, wayward, farm hand. The deception discovered, she concludes that even old Tony is preferable to the spaghettied dreariness of her 'Frisco job. Tony breaks both his legs just before the wedding and three months pass. The girl is with child by the farm hand Joe. In a severe and somewhat artificial climax Tony, whom she has mean while come to love, retains...
...once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...
CREOLE SKETCHES-Lafcadio Hearn- Houghton ($2.00). In this collection of early notes about New Orleans, lovely, sleepy "City of Dreams," are frequent bits of that exquisite phrasing and wayward charm for which Hearn was later famed. The sketches appeared in The New Orleans Item when the unkempt, erratic and friendless young genius was eking out his early years doing hack newspaper work and living on the "ultra-canal" side of the city. There are vivid, shimmering bits of description and portraiture, some humorous, some elusively lovely and redolent of the quaint, exotic charm of the picturesque old city...
...scene is an American artist's studio in Paris. The plot, an effort to show that love can regenerate the wayward. Pedro de Cordoba is the artist; Doris Kenyon, the model who loved him so hard she died. Presumably he forswore, thereafter, his failings and proceeded to the creation of manifold masterpieces...