Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser puzzled over Bellairs' "curious compound of indifference, wisdom, literary and political sense," the whiskey bottle...
...fraction of an inch. On an assignment he shows swimmers how to swim, prizefighters how to fight, baseball players how to run bases. When Dottie Dee (now of Sally Rand's ranch) described how she put on gold paint for her dance, Smitty said she did that wrong...
...rougher the Russians play. While Soviet bombers continued their out-of-bounds forays, nothing more was heard of the Japanese threat to carry the war into Siberia if the bombing of Manchukuoan towns was not stopped. Despite repeated reports of imminent annihilation, Soviet Mongols were still on the "wrong" side of the Khalka River, and the Japanese were "reluctant" to dislodge them. Manchukuoan Government-controlled newspapers hinted that if the Soviet Union the would negotiate Japan was ready to call the two months of border warfare a draw. But after a brief lull heavy artillery was again booming along...
...will ever marry him now. It hurts me very much for him to be socially ruined. I love him more than I ever dreamed I would. My whole life has been ruined because I tried to do too much. I shall remain in Paris until I have rectified the wrong that I have committed...
Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...