Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a third class?the writers who tell their troubles. Perhaps because the author seems to them a sort of impersonal, veiled prophet, they pour out to him or her the most intimate sort of confessions. They don't get on with their spouses, their children go wrong, the roof leaks, they are in trouble, sick, despairing, what to do ? Rather pitifully, they assume that the author can help them, tell them why and how, set life on its feet again. Strange...
...SCANDALS?A new note of the bizarre marks George White's latest revue with the New York blue ribbon. He has disregarded the precise symmetry and eyes action which had become axioms of the musical show business. He has thrown an occasional blur of color in the wrong place, in both his scenery and his humor. He has varied his tempo. The effect is slightly erratic?and the public is fighting to see George White's show...
...Protestant Episcopal Church needs a shaking up." " It is too closely identified with those who call themselves gentlemen." "Don't let society coddle you. What you are to do is to study what society is thinking and doing, and correct it in the places where it is wrong." " Sitting on the edge of a cloud and playing a harp does not appeal to me." " I protest against that patriotism which declares our country to be the greatest and always right, whether it is right or wrong." " The Ten Commandments should be rooted out of the Prayer Book. Too many...
Betting on the Wrong Test. Sweepstakes in horse racing, football and other sports have become so huge an interest in Great Britain that the Government has considered taxing all bets, and the Church of England's Men's Society, meeting in London, considered what might be done to stop the gambling evil. One cleric told the Society that some men in his parish bet on whether the vicar would preach on a text from the Old or the New Testament. No one thought of betting on the dark horse. They found the vicar preaching on the text Revision...
...WRONG SHADOW-Harold Brighouse-McBride ($2.00). Two clerks, Bassett and Wyler, scheme to become millionaires by inventing a new patent medicine. They quarrel and Wyler disappears, leaving behind a formula which he had imagined to be a fizzle but which Bassett discovers, uses and builds upon it a very substantial fortune. But his grapes are sour-he feels he owes at least half his fortune to Wyler. Wyler cannot be found, but his ectoplasm haunts Bassett's conscience. He does his best to salve said conscience, but ineffectively-and then, just at the wrong moment, Wyler reappears. However...