Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shows himself to be an American who will save this country when the crisis comes, not the individual who sits "on the fence." For the man who sits "on the fence" falls off backwards and on the wrong side...
...there appeared a communication literally effervescing with a most vaporous chauvinism. The gentleman displays a lively merriment over the treatment given the Reds rounded up by the Government. To him these creatures are a "collection of vermin," a "mass of scum," and, according to him, "it is not far wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure of all real Americans." But we must halt and reflect. Whom does he men by Americans? I feel certain that a large number who proudly bear that name and say "Civis Americanus sum," do not feel so disposed...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...
...scum no longer infects our social and political institutions with its deadly poison. No doubt there is considerable "wailing and gnashing of teeth," among these apostles of chaos as they turn their eyes westward to behold for the last time their "Paradise Lost," but it is not far wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure to all real Americans. They have made their bed; let them...