Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tribune readers waited anxiously for Friday morning's World. When at last they beheld it, they turned to the editorial page?and there, lo and behold, was a squib entitled "An Apology." Smiles wreathed the faces of the followers of the Tribune. So the World knew when it was wrong, did it? The World was courteous enough to apologize for its offences. With a new respect, they settled themselves to read: "The World made a high bid for the House memoirs; we do not blame the Herald Tribune for its resentment...
...course, who were given an option on their choice of subject with the understanding that for those who did not exercise this option an arbitrary assignment would be made. One Senior, not choosing his own subject, was assigned one by number. Carelessly misreading the number, he wrote upon the wrong subject. In punishment for this mechanical slip, the student in question was given the arbitrary mark of "E" on his thesis, with the explanation that the instructor was making an example of him for his carelessness in following instructions. Granting without question the prerogative of the instructor to use whatever...
...departure from normalcy is in order. This last war was a world disturbance and will naturally be followed by a world upheaval in crime. Attributing this to the United States can therefore result only from our inherent desire for legislation. When a man parks his auto on the wrong side of the street, or violates the prohibition law wantonly, he is held to be a criminal, but minor offenses are not the prenomena whereby we judge crime...
...trouble with them is--I still mean the whys and whats--that they have the wrong labels. In a generation with the greatest regard for labels what chance has any art which bears the tag of buffoonery--honest buffoonery?. Last week I went over to town to find what claim to greatness beside the tag of R.A., Sir John Lavery possessed. And there at the Vose galleries I saw people thrilling over, at best mediocre work--merely out of respect for the R.A.--that and the fact he had married a lady from Chicago. While next door at the Casson...
That is something another national weekly (the ? ?*) will not do. Some time since, in answer to a correspondent somewhere in Iowa, this periodical stated: "Tenderfeet is wrong; the proper plural of Tenderfoot is Tenderfoots...