Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupation. Yet in TIME, May 18, Page 16, column 3, I read: "Teacher Scopes," "Evolutionist Scopes." Were Professor Silas Bent, now on the staff of The New York Times Sunday magazine section, and Professor Charles G. Ross, now chief Washington correspondent for The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, wrong when they gave us fledgling journalists such advice...
...contracts, and the formation of casts. It is a burlesque of all that goes on in the making of a great American drama, both in front and in back of the foot-lights. There is an absurd and highly melodramatic dress rehearsal wherein the lights come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York...
College authorities are not prone to welcome such printed criticism. Alumni cannot always be right. But the sincerity manifested in these letters is a healthy sign. Even college presidents are not infallible, and they cannot go far wrong, or go wrong for long, when a staunch and active body of alumni is alert to the situation...
...were wrong. We sold youth short. Their football players down east may not amount to much but when it comes to fighting, editors they are supreme. --Chicago Tribune...
...fact that not a single one of the hackneyed, conventional thriller devices is omitted. If we could sit back coldly and explain to those in the few rows within whispering distance that, technically speaking, it is not a very good play, we might not be so very far wrong. Despite our utmost efforts, however, we find ourselves constantly on the edge of our seats, on the very verge of yelling to the heroine in distress, "Hey! Look behind you!" So what...