Word: waywardly
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Item: The ministers agreed to chip in ?7,500,000 to help wayward sister Burma, which had left the Commonwealth, get back on her feet...
...entered the army's Toronto training school, left it nine months later to deal with a wayward world. He became one of the army's most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn. He married British-born Ann Vickers, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, who had marched to the army from the Episcopal Church. In 1914 he sailed aboard the Empress of Ireland for a London convention with 300 of Canada's top Salvationists. In a thick St. Lawrence River fog, a freighter cut the Empress...
...Editor Maloney and presumably for the Trib's readers-were blazoned across the Trib's front page and on its circulation trucks. The nice-Nellie promotion men had a tough problem of finding a euphemism for the harlot Norma Browning had pretended to be, had toyed with "wayward woman," finally settled on "woman outcast...
Lord Kemsley's unsexy, unsensational Sunday Times (circ. 521,000) rushed to defend its more wayward and widely read sisters: "Is it not time that those who . . . make such attacks should . . . particularize the journals which they wish to pillory?" It was true, as the Sunday Times said, that not all the Sundays were devoted to rape, robbery and remorse; two (the Sunday Times itself and the Observer) were sober news and feature weeklies, and several others were only mildly sensational. But some of the scandalmongering and crime stories of the biggest British Sundays made even U.S. tabloids seem...
...liner Italia steamed into New York harbor last week with some unwanted cargo-six stowaways and a wayward Philadelphia war veteran named George Saddich. Saddich, complained Captain Ugo Chinca, had taken to throwing things overboard: ten fire hoses, six fancy ashtrays, two fire extinguishers, ten 50-lb. potted laurel trees, several dishes-and himself. Of all these, only Saddich was recovered from...