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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them". Such are the words which Thucydides put in the mouth of Alcibiades some 400 years before the Christiamera. And yet it would seem that in this case the Athenian historian was wrong and that there is something new to be said about the virtues and the vices of what has been called the most glorious of political fallacies; for tomorrow night at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, two modern philosophers will debate on whether democracy is or is not a failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

White Alderman Merritt Martindale, senior Councilman, interrupted Mr, Whitlock. "Now, Bill." he said, "I hope you're not going to take a wrong view of us whites. The difference is there and it does no good to try to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Jr. | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Leaving the town hall for the residence of the governor of Bosnia the royal car made a wrong turning and while the chauffeur was backing the automobile several shots rang out. The royal couple fell back mortally wounded. In consternation orders were given to drive on to the governor's residence, but before the two-minute drive was over the Duchess was dead. Fifteen minutes later the Archduke died, shot through the jugular vein. His last words were: "Sophie, live for our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Last of the Assassins | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Milestones, with Arnold Bennett as coauthor, Kismet, Marie-Odile. Not so decidedly to his credit is this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays the enemy. The play is sordid, the cast plenty good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Oxford," Chadwick continued, "the town is merely an adjunct of the University. We don't have the traffic problem as you do here in Cambridge. Moreover we are used to looking the wrong way for motors. When I start across Harvard Square, I took to the right. By the time I realize I should be looking the other way a honking horde of cars has descended upon me from the left. It's quite the most dangerous place in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting English Scholar Finds Harvard Square Supports Logic of Eighteenth Amendment-Oxford Steals Police Caps | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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