Word: waywardly
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...conference as a whole, but was asked to sit in on a special session at Chequers, Prime Minister Attlee's country home. There the delegates discussed what would happen if Eire carried out her plan to leave the Commonwealth. The delegates were agreed that such a wayward sister would lose trade preferences and the right of her people to emigrate to other Dominions...
...other newsworthy hats got together when Eleanor Roosevelt (in a small, fussy one) and Bethune-Cookman College's Mary McLeod Bethune (in a forthright, big one) put their heads together over tea in Manhattan (see cut). Occasion: a fund-raising drive for a rural school for wayward boys...
Different Burmans had different ideas as to what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...
...style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th...
...explain the pitifully low returns. And the new rationalizations--late veterans checks, post-Yale poverty, plain forgetfulness--can very easily be used to explain away neglect of pledges. Five thousand dollars worth of these pledges are still unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door-slamming before an endless chain of charity canvassers; it seems...