Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field of the banner forming Mr. Longworth's background is at the upper left hand corner whereas it should be in the upper right hand corner according to my understanding of the courtesies due our national emblem...
...alighted from his carriage. I happen to know, because I was present on both occasions-as the Military Attache at Berlin and, for the week of the Colonel's visit, his Aide. The four figures in the doorway, shown in the picture in question are, left to right, Theodore Roosevelt, myself, a German officer (probably an adjutant representing the Emperor), Irwin Laughlin (the First Secretary of the Embassy...
...quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to oppose a limitation in arms, but I do not believe the American people approve of attempts to humiliate and cause dissension in their Government before representatives of foreign governments...
...lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...
...Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with him, but his wife got him away in time. A Manhattan actress, Ernestine took life a little too fast. When she thought she had had enough, she turned on the gas. Rona was making a good...