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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who managed last February to troupe gamely through a few forced smiles when mother Gladys married Bandleader Don Sylvio, now graciously ceded center stage to mother. "It was all wrong from the beginning," declared Gladys, announcing plans for annulment. She was "angry and disturbed" over stories that Margaret had talked her into anything. Said Don: "Some people have an aversion to child actresses, but I haven't. Nor do I have a personal aversion to Margaret, except when she interferes with my marriage . . . I'm the middleman all the way through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...very few men in the world today who understands what is wrong," he says in so many words. "Now listen, all you dumb yucks, while I explain...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Wylie Puts Good Ideas Into Cheap Novel--'Opus 21' | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...Delegates, he was made majority floor leader in his first term, at 26. Three months later, the U.S. entered World War I, and Johnson went off to fight through the Meuse-Argonne offensive as a captain of infantry. He returned with a hatful of ideas on what was wrong with the Army. On an impulse which was later to become a habit, he sat down and wrote a book-length report on his views. He sent it off to Chief of Staff Peyton C. March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

What's wrong with the airlines? They're too pampered. That is what hard-jawed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of profitable Eastern Air Lines Inc., told the Senate Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rx from Rick | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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