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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquered populations should have been forced to sacrifice their production for a century, if necessary, in order to indemnify the victors. This is what Germany did in 1870, and she was quite right. The Allies, instead, allowed America to betray them in 1918, and they were quite wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revising Revived | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...present ambition," she asserted, "is to become an authoress, but after 14 years of writing for tabloid journals I feel that my style is molded the wrong way. In the newspaper game everything is written in a hurry for people who read in a rush. After helping people for so long a time with their marital and pre-marital difficulties, I need help myself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students More Frequently Lovelorn Than Harvard Men, Says Beatrice Fairfax--Frowns Upon Lindsey Companionism | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...fille to a smugly relieved mother, who basked then for weeks in the compliments the world paid her upon her daughter. Lest Mrs. Trevelyan's serenity be disturbed by the discovery of unaccountable Balkan visas on Loveday's passport, the girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: More Mothers | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Senators on the other side of the Chamber have not hesitated to go down into the tomb for Republicans who have passed away. . . . Democrats attempt to smear oil all over dead Republicans. But if we merely mention a man who perchance happens to be a Democrat, then something is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: You're Another | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...play, Paris Bound, a suave gentleman boasts that he once stroked the Vassar crew. He was wrong in more ways than one. Vassar, famed female college though it is, has no crew. In fact, the only U. S. female college where crew is a major sport is Wellesley, at Wellesley, Mass. Last week Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and shouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crew | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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