Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first and only conciliatory point the Yorkshireman said that there was nothing wrong with the size of the sponge cake, with the total fixed by the Young Plan for Germany to pay. That part of the plan he was ready to adopt. But he objected strenuously to: 1) the scaling down of the British Empire's share in German reparations to 18%, whereas under the Spa agreement of 1923 she was to get 22%; 2) the allotment to France, Belgium and Italy of nearly all the sums "unconditionally" pledged by Germany "in kind" (i.e., in commodities like coal...
...bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford to mollycoddle. Egypt with her Suez Canal is the road to India, and British soldiers have been guarding that road for decades, right or wrong. It was gall and wormwood, it was bitter hemlock, last week, for British officers to stomach what was shouted to cheering, pacifistic socialists by War Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India...
...wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...
...everyone knows, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's most famed magazines concern themselves with "confessions" of sex-conscious girls who go wrong, see the light, reform. They are: True Story, True Experiences, True Romances, Dream World. To comply with postal laws, intimate sex details are usually represented by three asterisks...
...returned their attentions to the business of the day. Unexpected and most disturbing was the point-blank question put to the Bishops by the Rev. Edward Lyttelton, onetime headmaster of Eton, who demanded to know immediately what they thought about birth control- Said Dr. Lyttelton: "If contraception is not wrong in many cases it must be right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist...