Word: waywardly
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...physicians it should be remembered that they spend their time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree...
...despised. Thus the twelve Rutgers Freshmen who failed to pass their first semester courses have been raised from the ridiculous to the sublime--or perhaps to the more ridiculous. They are to go on exhibition before critical educational investigators. When Rutgers decided to retain the mentally-wayward twelve, to nurture them in a class all their own, and to engage her leading professors to teach them economics, history, mathematics and geology, she was manifestly actuated by motives ulterior to one of commiseration, for colleges have never put a premium on failure...
President Hindenburg, monarchist head of a Republic, has ended an embarrassing situation by the methods of a drill sergeant. For six weeks, Dr. Luther struggled with wayward minorities which refused to agree on a cabinet. Angered by the ceaseless argument, the President of Germany spoke in the tones of Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Within a few hours the four parties of moderate opinions had decided on the members of the government...
...importance of the position is mainly ceremonial and, for all practical purposes, a Minister of an important power would outrank an Ambassador of some wayward state; but, lest there should be any misunderstanding, the Ministers relegated the importance of the Dean's office to purely ceremonial affairs. The grouping of the Powers at Peking makes such a step necessary; for, in questions affecting nations which have not recognized the Dean's Government, it would be impossible for him to represent the Diplomatic Corps as a body...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards and the sunshine of California robbed of their sweetness and their light by a wayward wench from San Francisco who marries the master of the vineyard by mail...