Word: errant
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...Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
Last week the court refused to give this to Mr. MacVeagh. The reasons for the refusal were based upon the nature of the Apocrypha, or lost books, of the Bible. Certain of these, incorporated into the Old Testament by errant Hebrews and written down in the Greek Septuagint which is otherwise merely a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, were included by St. Jerome in his Latin Vulgate. Theologians in the middle ages questioned the authenticity of the Apocrypha which St. Jerome had accepted. The Council of Trent (1545-63) established their repute, since which time they have remained...
...rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday, on the golf links, he tells his companions: "I got a birdie here last week," instead of the oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine...
...long can the candle of genius be hidden under a bushel; the recognizing world catches errant gleams that betray closeted flame, and cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...
Birthday. At Sinaia, some 75 miles north of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the Royal Palace, Michael I, World's youngest king, celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else...