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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...check-up reveals that six Harvard men, five from each Yale and Dartmouth, three from Army, and one apiece from Florida, Holy Cross, and New Hampshire are included. Probably this means that there's something wrong, but it also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...even then in his favor. Nor was his versatility confined to the purely physical sides of the questioned. This picture, which started as a death mask to Beethoven, includes among other attractive features, a young lady standing on her head along with some very fine draperies. And now the wrong has been righted, and the artist has the prize money. The only criticism is that some might feel that the judges of this exhibition were not quite on the square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...have seen a good many explanations," said the Vice-Chamberlain jovially, "as to why we took my vacation on a tanker instead of a liner. They were all of them wrong. The truth is very simple. I knew in an oil tanker we would find peace and quiet and good sailing conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tanker Jack | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Will Marion Cook, the Negro Schubert, is fiery, erratic, race-proud. Hearing young Taylor, ambitious, hang on a high note, he kicked him out of Manhattan's famed Clef Club (negro musical organization), shouting: "No can can be a niggah if he sings my music wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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