Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of the young western college men who have sold Mr. Vanderlip bonds and filed his tax returns the statement is both interesting and sound. From the point of view of the alumni of Yale and Harvard who have filled similar positions the statement is interesting but quite unaccountably wrong. The rest of the world will admire the courage of a man who dares to generalize...
Archbishop Michael J. Curley, of Baltimore: "I told an assembly of Catholic women: ' If you want peace, go to a cemetery. There has been too much peace in the Church. When a Church becomes too peaceful, there is something wrong with the Church...
...feel proud that I have been called upon to fill so high an office. If I should feel proud in the wrong way, the sight of that waving before me (pointing to a huge American flag suspended from the ceiling) will keep me steady...
...World Court proposal, the Republican regiments have been muttering and boiling like an angry sea. The spectre of the League of Nations poked its head over the trees and immediately the President was besieged with requests to stick his head in the sand. Whether he was right or wrong in believing that he saw the people's faces turned toward Europe, for him to play ostrich now would be ludicrous. Hence Mr. Harding, ungratefully locking the politicians in the kitchen, steadfastly proposes to carry his cause to the people during the summer...
...morning I have been trying to think, and I find nothing. The task before me would obliterate a weaker man. It is supremely hard to convince the rest of the world that everything is wrong, and the worst of it is they don't know...