Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inmates, he took occasional shots for two years. The result, a 65-minute production called Cloistered, was on view last week in Manhattan. Critics agreed that it would interest Catholics, clear up for non-Catholics many a misapprehension about life in a nunnery. Devoted specifically to redeeming wayward girls, the Good Shepherd sisters have some 300 houses throughout the world. They differ from most other sisterhoods pictorially (flowing white robes instead of the usual black) and in organization. As postulants maidens of 21 or over may enter the order of their free will, become novices after six months' probation...
...little late in so doing, but they also seem to be doing it from a purely personal viewpoint: the Press of Boston because the subject makes good copy; the Pastors of Cambridge because they perhaps think that now is an excellent time to steer a few of the wayward flock into the fold. But I think it is time for the undergraduate body to rise in righteous wrath at the suggestions concerning curbs to be placed upon their personal freedoms...
...arbiter of undergraduate Vice, the Cononel has for many years known every wayward student. While much of his work has involved minor offenses, such as parking on University property, he has organized the College's defenses against riots, intoxication, and other disturbances...
...tale from Heine. It is the Age of Romanticism. And the Vagabond feels his kindred spirits. It is a poetic Germany welcoming back all that is spontaneous and imaginative in literature. It is a time when the Vagabond could indulge all his spiritual instincts; even the wildest and most wayward. And the Vagabond is happy; happy with the good earth which a few years before this age was all the devil...
...Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept man of a noble lady. Paprika finally went after him, surviving many a love bout by the way. Just...