Word: waywardly
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Harvardmen invented the case system of teaching law, deducing legal principles from cases actually decided in court. The Gluecks likewise cite cases of wayward women to exemplify the whole problem...
...only 100 miles wide at Hodeida, and on the other side lies only partially pacified Italian Eritrea. Blushing at having backed the wrong horse, Italy dispatched the destroyer Turbine. France, too, was on the defensive, fearful lest the exploits of Ibn Saud, keenest sword of Allah, put wayward ideas in the heads of her Mohammedan tribes...
Hollis--"Her Majesty the Widow". Old stuff dished up in an entertaining manner. Story of the vicissitudes of the wayward son of a family with traditions...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...
...apartment, plans to break in on the couple in time to practice blackmail. Instead, overcome by jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies. Eddie runs away, Ruby goes to the reformatory. Eddie visits her, persuades an elderly colored clergyman calling on his wayward daughter to marry them in the institution's chapel. Their wedding, with policemen who have gotten wind of Eddie's presence pounding on the door, is the high point of the story. The closing shot shows Ruby and her son, who is older than he ought to be, waiting...