Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pocket battleship and one of them is the Repulse. The others are the Renown and the Hood, both of which were last week laid up for repairs and renovation, and the fast, 26,000-ton French battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque. Moreover, if war caught the Repulse on the wrong side of the Atlantic, a couple of destroyer flotillas would have to hurry over to escort her back. Battleships are too clumsy and slow to fight off attacks from submarines. Destroyers are needed for that purpose...
Guard Seymour happened to be wrong on one point: one of the six catalogues (Oriental) has precisely the kind of explanatory material he suggested. In his other observations, many a Joe Bloake agreed that he was right as rain. Next day, however, by his own request, Guard Seymour was transferred to duty on a Fair parking...
Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, often unfortunate in rubbing masculine Labor the wrong way, observed in Washington that "only words" lay between union and operators...
Gray, unaccented, often pointless, Back Door to Heaven shows the progress of dim-witted Frankie Rogers (Wallace Ford) from the wrong side of the tracks to the wrong side of the bars. Largely a one-man job, the picture owes its sincerity and its faults to husky, sentimental Director...
...favorite Wall Street notion is that traders in odd lots (less than 100 shares of stock) are always wrong-when they buy, the market goes down; when they sell, it goes up. Last week the first comprehensive survey of odd-lot trading-made by the Brookings Institution under the direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends...