Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all due respect to the Anti-Blasphemous Society, one might suggest that they are on the wrong track. Italians abroad who do not know the language of the country in which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...They were wrong, however. The Horn & Hardart Co. seldom advertise...
...this country, competing, overlapping, each insisting on some minutiae, tithing mite, anise or cumin and neglecting the weightier matters of the law. And so far has this historic policy gone that one denomination of Mennonites is distinguished from all others by the fact that it thinks wearing buttons wrong and wears hooks and eyes instead. "Against this policy of Protestantism we have taken our stand. We have built an inclusive church...
Take our faculty for instance: Langfeld is gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter...
When he was four months in office, he had to write his first message. Laboriously, painfully, he went over nearly every proposal which was before the country. He tried to master each. Believing, as a New Englander does, that a thing is either right or wrong, he did not attempt to dodge or straddle any question. Even the red hot Soldier Bonus he touched, briefly to be sure, in his own interest, making his statement merely...