runaround

Deception, usually in the form of evasive excuses.

Type set in a column narrower than the body of the text, as on either side of a picture.

A new or artificial channel by which the whole or a portion of the water of a stream is diverted from its usual channel and flows around an obstacle, such as a dam or ice-gorge, and returns again to its normal channel below the obstruction.

In medicine, paronychia; whitlow.

a delaying or evasive, and sometimes deceptive, answer to an inquiry or request.

An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses

A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration