Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect, a socialistic world-state, the abolition of private capital. His means of attaining it and his reasons for seeking it are unique. He begins in the approved socialistic manner: "No sane man can live on this planet 20 years without realizing that something is very seriously wrong with the world." But he does not proceed with the usual tirade against the capitalist who "squeezes the last drop of profit" from the laboring classes. He enumerates the economic hardships of the race and then proceeds to trace them to the inefficient industrial structure of society. He demonstrates that...
...Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx-"father of modern socialism"-to the Moscow Government when it requested permission to transfer his grandfather's body from Highgate Cemetery, London, to the Red capital. In his refusal he stated that the Bolshevik interpretation of Karl Marx's doctrines was entirely wrong and he did not think that his grandfather would have liked his memory associated with it. Allegedly this is a great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime...
...little boarding house slavey in the height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue and Adolphe Menjou with an opportunity to be a hero for once-while remaining a man-about-town. The Goldfish. Constance Talmadge...
...SWAN?Glamorous, inviting romance, wherein royal ermine emits sparks when stroked the wrong...
...noise in the Harvard victory was Spalding's pitching. He mixed up fast balls, curves, and puzzling floaters in a manner that kept the Tigers guessing--and guessing wrong. The slender Crimson pitcher allowed two hits, both of which were decidedly scratchy. He also walked two men, and all four Tigers waited on the bases for the hit that never came. Two of them died on third, one on second, and the other on first. Spalding is not a strike-out pitcher--he only fanned one man Saturday. His forte is rather to fool the enemy sluggers into popping...