Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulty newsmen identified him as Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late great Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Quickly they jumped to the conclusion- in print-that he was to be the new Assistant Secretary of State, vice Minister Johnson. Wrong though their conclusion was, it served to bring a White House statement: President Hoover had appointed Mr. Page to the U. S. advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born...
Millions of U. S. cinemagoers looked and listened last fortnight as a grey-haired woman pleaded piteously on the screen for her family's good name. No movie mother whose son had gone wrong was she, but Mrs. Albert Bacon Fall, wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny...
Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses in tap dances and the hero, who has played listlessly in the first half of the big game because his sweetheart seems untrue to him, discovers that...
Fortunately enough Mr. Casey, Boston's estimable censor, was either absent or could see nothing wrong in cheering so long as there is no pecunlary advantage in it. Consequently the production was allowed to continue on to its ultimately happy conclusion much to the satisfaction of all present