Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to their tastes. Gold and silver and lead; In the hands of a purchaser they may become anything. But there are some in when none of the display is attractive. This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think of tunes...
...such a time as this a change in national policies involves not−as some may lightly think−only a choice between different roads by either of which we may go forward, but a question also as to whether we may not be taking the wrong road and moving backward. The measure of our national prosperity, of our stability, of our hope of further progress at this time is the measure of what we may risk through a change in present policies. More than once in our national history a change in policies in a time of advancement...
...said Democrats, "Mr. Hoover has sat upon Mrs. Willebrandt. He has told her her zeal must not go too far or in the wrong direction. New York is the biggest of the States, and hard enough to Hooverize, without annoying it. Mr. Hoover has thanked Mrs. Willebrandt and he has also 'spanked...
When he exhibited first at the English Art Club, at about the same time as Sir William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...
...drawing no chiaroscuro of virtue and vice. Just as Andrew Jackson believed a thing to be all black or all white, so he has been painted all whiteman. His fiery tempers are matters of righteous indignation; his gullibility a matter of holding a man right until he is proved wrong...