Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Pugh has the right painter, but the wrong Vanderbilt. It was the Commodore's son, William Henry, who sat for and became a patron of Meissonier...
...Smith flew to Fort Worth, Texas to get Ben Hogan's story for the first golf cover TIME has run in ten years,* he found that Hogan had his mind on other things than golf. Like Mr. Blandings, he was building a house, and everything seemed to be wrong with it. According to Hogan, the rooms had been painted the wrong colors, a rug he had won in a golf tournament had been cut wrong, etc. Smith was put to work carrying cartons of household goods from the garage into the house. While sympathizing with Hogan on the hazards...
...very unimpressive. The more mature way of dealing with this error would be reason rather than "name-calling." I might propose that "Miss Name Withheld" get a majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong. If they are really serious in their convictions, I am certain that many of us would support them and sign their petition for allowing Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library. George W. Miller...
Twenty-five years ago, at the University of Toronto, three history lecturers became fast friends. Two, Lester Bowles Pearson and Hume Wrong, went into Canada's foreign service; George Parkin de Twene-brokes Glazebrook stayed on as a history professor. During the war, Mike Pearson drafted Glazebrook to help him in the Department of External Affairs. Last week Glazebrook was drafted again, to direct Canada's Joint Intelligence Bureau...
Norman Collins, BBC's television chief, thinks Muffin appeals to everyone, including grownups, because his "grandiose ideas always go wrong, and, in that sense, he is the epitome of a whole field of human experience." The London Observer's radio critic has written learnedly of Muffin's "fresh, inventive, convivial" antics. Anthony Smith, one of Muffin's fans, puts the matter more simply: "I am four years old," he wrote. "I love Muffin...