Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Artist. Gilbert had an eye for the absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...
...mysterious, unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong scent, helped out by a somewhat sinister-looking man servant...
...Outline of the History of a Man's Philosophical Knowledge from Early Youth to Old Age.?1. I am wrong. 2. I am right. 3. I am wrong...
...weapons makes it a certainty. The speaker declared that we are not being urged to enter the League as it was or as it is but as it shall be with our amendments. The League is not perfect. It has done many things that are wrong, he added, and it has done many things that are right, "but it has never attempted to do anything that it has not done well." The support of the United States will make it all-powerful. Germany, Russia, Equador, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the United States are the only nations outside...
...picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even if you expert does see a man play once, he may get a wrong impression. The man may be playing far above or far below his normal game...