Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weeks '49, Council president, and Alfred M. Goodloe '50, chairman of the NSA delegation. Fisher refused, how-ever, on the grounds that his resignation would not help the NSA in any way. He added that if he had been convinced that anything he did regarding NSA had been wrong, he would have resigned...
...girl's cure not solely because it will mean losing her love, but because she has given him spiritual (and vocational) satisfaction as well. M. Blanchar's Pastor moves with automatic thoroughness towards the catastrophe, not thinking, as other men might, whether what he is doing is right or wrong. What he is doing is natural...
...always felt that Bob Hope was a better buffoon than rapid fire gagster. Apparently Director McLeod thought the same thing because he has Hope superbly overplaying his part. He does the commonplace with a flourish and the spectacular by mistake. He is at his best when he pulls the wrong tooth and when he swaggers around town under the impression he is a dead shot...
...acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...
...process of elimination. The late Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, had decided on internal evidence that the diarist must have been 1) a New Englander, 2) a former Whig, 3) a Republican in 1860-61, 4) a Senator. Anderson eventually decided that Johnson might be wrong on any or all counts...