Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really so much worse than our forefathers? Or was that philosopher wrong who said that every generation thinks its children lawless? Not that we object to all this talk, amusing as it is, but we should like to know whether the constant struggles to be horrible examples is unique with our age alone. If we have succeeded in stirring up the wrath of the just for the first time, we should at least get credit for that...
...inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent audacity what can equal the following extract from Wrong Numbers, a game of unconscionable impersonation on the telephone, invented by the author...
...field, in an advantageous position, so as to direct the play of their respective teams. "I am strongly for it," he said, "because it would tell just how much the coaches knew. No longer would they be able to put the blame on the quarterbacks when things went wrong...
Furthermore, I believe Mr. Code's point of view is wrong. He does not seem to realize that the Lampoon is a club which prints its thoughts in an irresponsible way in the organ it has founded for that purpose. It tries to keep away from the atmosphere of a publication office, and its literary pretensions are consequently ingenuous and insignificant. The members of this club enjoy seeing their works in print; this enjoyment is the only return for their trouble. Why the magazine should have been compared to "Life" I cannot see. The CRIMSON might as well be compared...
...College ever uttered. The cultural background and intellectual interests which are essential to the dramatist, he finds lacking in the ordinary college graduate. Inasmuch as the latter is expected to have acquired both of these as a result of his college course, it would seem as if something were wrong either with the colleges themselves or the attitude of those who frequent them...