Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schumacher speech in Frankfurt, a middle-aged man told his Hausfrau: "That's what we need-a man running our government who will speak up for us against the Allies." By the principles of representative government, the man was right; by the rules of occupation, he was dead wrong...
...official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...Admiral Yumashev was wrong on two counts: the islands had not "always belonged to Russia," and Russian forces did not win the Kuriles from the Japanese armed forces; Russia got the Kuriles (after VJ-day) in accordance with one of the Yalta deals...
Their plans, of course, go wrong. As soon as Miss Calvet, in a deep-chested décolletage, spots Lancaster in a sweaty, open-collared shirt, she is seized with a different idea: to walk off with Lancaster, diamonds or no. By the time she has had her way, the plot has encompassed a torture scene and the remarkable regeneration of the heroine. It has also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself...
...Great Dan Patch (W. R. Frank; United Artists) is a sentimental, sway-backed horse opera about a champion pacer of the turn of the century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom...