Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers of your paper might think that Mr. Tan Kah Kee cherish an aversion towards the American people, whom he has always held in high esteem and regard as sincere friends of China's welfare. He has never been to Europe or America (the statement is wrong when it says that he has several times visited Europe), owing to the multifarious duties of his business, which take away practically all of his time. Some day perhaps Mr. Tan Kah Kee will be glad to tour your country and see the various industrial enterprises of which he is much interested...
...evil. The young man stands before them and deliberately makes his decision. The good path is represented as hard, encompassed by temptations, requiring purpose and fortitude; but the decision to be made is on each occasion clear. Moral earnestness is required, yet the choice is between obvious right and wrong. Such a choice would be easy. In the maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different...
...greatest concern in connection with the rearing of these children and the future of our country is the fact that our citizens seem to be developing a thorough lack of respect for our laws and institutions, and there seems to be a growing feeling that nothing is wrong in life except getting caught...
...have joined hands to make happy the parting guest, spring in the Yard has thus far been a hollow mockery. Traditional paraphernalia like the call of the silvery Reinhardt has been dragged out in a pathetic effort at cheeriness. Nowhere has to been recognized that the play was not wrong, but the setting. At last someone has wondere; where are the gowns of yesteryear...
Well, Dorothy has practically the wrong ideas about everything, and no ideals, for she does nothing but fall madly in love with the kind of gentlemen who were born without money and have not made any since. Like the saxaphone player, for instants, that she married, without giving herself the opertunity to get sick of him first...