Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining his conversion to world federalism, he wrote soon afterward: "The eyes of a schoolboy often wander from a seemingly insignificant lesson on a black board to something bigger, perhaps more important. ... So, too, do the thoughts of a schoolboy, for sometimes his thoughts move from sports and petty quarrels and homework to the bigger things . . . like war and peace. -It is that way with...
When Coulet let Rochet wander off without punishment, hinted that he might be given a job elsewhere in liberated France, bitter-enders raged. But moderates, who had long since won the day in Gaullist councils, decided that Vichyites should be coolly but firmly judged. A high French official in Algiers said recently: "This talk of bumping off everybody who has been playing ball with Vichy, it is a lot of . . . how do you say it. . . bodewash!* C'est de la merde...
...Mass are there specific prayers for Russia or for Stalin. What every Catholic priest recites are prayers "for the [Roman Catholic] Church in Russia" (prescribed by Pope Pius XI in 1934), including a petition that God may "thrust down to hell Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls...
These primarily interested in the local street-cleaning and filtration problems have missed their chance to wander freely through garages, plants, and incinerators, but red and green light patrons may view the Fire and Police buildings today and tomorrow, respectively...
...Town & Country, reported from the Florida front: "Next time you're wondering where anybody is, I suggest you come down to Miami Beach, park a camp chair . . . and just sit and wait. Sooner or later everyone you've ever known or heard of is sure to wander by. ... As for the maid situation, there are no maids in Florida. Everybody does her own housework. The usual household consists of a nurse for the children, a cleaning woman two or three times a week, and Madame with her sleeves rolled up the rest of the time...