Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When patches were in style one had only to look at an English lady's face to determine her politics. Today in France a glance at a man's collar will tell you whether he is an old school royalist, and if his socks are of the wrong shade they betray a dangerous radical. Ever meticulous in matters of dress Paris was astounded when M. Painleve, President of this enchanter of Deputies, appeared at his own reception wearing a turned down collar and a disarranged tie. And when the Under Secretary of State for Aviation opened his coat and exhibited...
...prominent graduate and former Editor of the CRIMSON recently wrote in regard to competitions that the prevalent theory that competitions in general and the CRIMSON competitions in particular are detrimental to the scholastic standing of the candidates is erroneous. "Not only is this an entirely wrong theory," he stated, "but it is also diametrically opposed to the truth as upheld by facts. The veracity of the opinion that I have always held that the training received in competition helped rather than hindered scholastic work was proved by the record of the 1924 CRIMSON Board of Editors, which I ran across...
...property as such a character was sure to, Thinkwell left a written confession which, 70 years after the scurvy deed, fell into the hands of his grandson, a lecturer at Cambridge. Lecturer Thinkwell set out with his three children to investigate and, if possible, to right the wrong done by his unscrupulous forebear. For, thought he, there is a possibility that some may have survived. Allowing that the 40 orphans made 20 pairs, each pair having an average of 10 children (Victorians) and the second generation doing the same, the island might be well populated...
...statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase: "Let us put Right on the throne and Wrong on the scaffold...
...Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne."-The Present Crisis...