Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a question like this, all the other elections of the day take a secondary place. The issue is clean-cut. The difference between the two candidates is the difference between right and wrong And to the eternal disgrace of Boston be it said, that indications point to the voters' choice of wrong...
...slight resentment--"The great point is not whether this article makes a good case or not, but that it should be written at all". Perhaps I misinterpret 'this remark--certainly it sounds rather extraordinary to me. Then he puts quotations around the word "Cultural". I trust I am wrong in thinking that they indicate a peculiar tone of voice...
...What is wrong with this picture? Here is a man seated at a dinner table between three ladies a butter plate and a dish of soup. He is in evening dress. In and around his buttonhole is a secondhand rose. More vegetables and even soup and fish are scattered about on the table and the guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those...
...early season football games. No one can reasonably oppose such philanthropy, but there certainly should be a condition or promise that said organizations leave their musical instruments at home. Several times last year and again last Saturday the visiting bands have shown a remarkable instinct for playing at the wrong time. Our own band was delayed several minutes at the end of the first half by an uncalled for demonstration by our guests, and all attempts of the announcer to give scores of other games were met by a deafening outburst from the youthful musicians. Invite the children...
During the war someone remarked that the world's three greatest men were Wilson, who had the right ideas and failed to apply them; Lenin, who had the wrong ideas and failed to apply them; and Lloyd George, who had no ideas and applied them vigorously. America's estimate of the Welsh Wizard has been generally higher than this opinion; but if there is truth in the paradox, it is easy to see which of the three has been most successful. Wilson has been repudiated; Lenin is an emblem of chaos; Lloyd George continues undisturbed at the head...