Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the testimony emerged the picture of the Board's headaches with its own employes-one too zealous, another with a weakness for drink, good men in the wrong positions, some suspicious of their fellow employes, some mixed in obscure political doings, some incompetent but devoted, some clever but unreliable-the same tangled problems of personnel that industry has faced...
...Vista Street. As she undressed in the bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary Jo and Mrs. Miller were only slightly bruised; Brother J. H. was hit on the head by a falling timber. Outside...
...stable groom, scathingly denounced "this tribute to Hitler," but Lord Darnley's proposal was warmly seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...
...shows a Salvation Army "citadel" with doors marked MEN and WOMEN. Every time an actor starts for one, the crowd shouts: "Wrong door, wrong door...
...ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place in an insane asylum or even the suspicion of it brings indignation," is better than a mere laugh; it is, like the whole of the book...