Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early failures were in the same field in which success was afterwards attained; others were cases where the final triumph was in a subject quite different from that of the early efforts. In some of them the obstacles came from outside; in others from a false start in the wrong direction. In all, the end was a notable contribution to the world. Probably each of these men would, throughout his life, have marked as disappointments many lesser things besides the obvious ones that have been here observed. To the ambitious in the best sense of the term, it often, seems...
...blacklist is one of the very best textbooks. In fact, three of the first four books named by Mr. Hirshfield as being ' fit only to be fed to the furnace are the works of three of the most distinguished scholars in the country." Of course Dr. Perkins is wrong. But what could be expected of a man with a name like...
...Gerald du Maurier, celebrated actor, thought the cartoon on the Prince was a great and harmless joke. He bought it for $40 and says he did not want it to get into the wrong hands and that he will not sell it to anyone in the world except the Prince of Wales. ". . . one day," he added, "it will be found hanging in the nursery of King Edward VIII at Windsor Castle...
...chal Foeh said that the word invincible means " someone who has not yet been vanquished." Literary circles of Paris discussed this new definition with much heat, but although they felt that M. le Maréchal was wrong they had a sneaky feeling that his meaning ought to be right. Finally, the Forty Immortals of the Académie Française decided that invincible means what le Maréchal Foeh said it meant...
...children in the sinfulness " of attempting to settle international disputes by means of war." There was apparently a good deal of discussion as to the proper form of words and the convention refused to resolve that children should be brought up " to the idea of the futility and wrong of war." It seems that there is a distinction between the wrong of attempting to settle international dispute by means of war and the wrong of war itself. But however that may be, the fact remains that the convention labored to phrase a resolution which would lead to the teaching...