Word: waywardly
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...does not scold infants for fear of inducing a trauma, but the Loeb Drama Center, the wayward son of Harvard drama, is old enough now to have its faults pointed out. After a full term with the new theatre, disturbing and pernicious tendencies can be discerned in both its administration and its general effect on College drama...
...priests warned, the consequences "can harm the church in our diocese for generations to come." Neither the pre-censored civil press nor the uncensored church press made a reference to the petition until the Papal Nuncio brushed off the letter as an ill-considered act of "some of our wayward sons." Spain's newspapers then rushed to tell their readers that the highly controversial letter, whose existence they never had admitted, had been "rejected." Last week a second petition was reported collecting signatures among non-Basque priests...
...anti-snobs feel like snobs, and no matter how a man may dodge or duck, no matter what his protective coloration or self-effacement, "however warily, modestly, gently you tread, some snob or other will find a category for you, and drop you into your class like a wayward pea returned...
...removed from under its fingernail this week is "Mostellaria" (or "The Haunted House") by Plautus. This farce dates from around 200 B.C. and, except for the fact that it predates almost all of them, is totally indistinguishable from the five thousand other farces based on the carousings of a wayward son during his father's absence. It has in it the familiar wily servant and the hordes of cooperative women and it ends in the inevitable crisis precipitated by the father's unexpected return. (Don't prodigal sons in farces ever know their father's itineraries...
...Wayward Buss. In Aberdeen, Scotland, the road of romance proved rocky for Motorist George Guyan when he stole a kiss from Frances Crocker, smashed into a tree, causing her to break an ankle and lose four teeth...