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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Bayard Swope (executive editor of the New York World) and Mrs. Swope had their noses broken, needed surgical stitching, when their motor was sideswiped by an oncoming motor that edged over to the wrong side of Central Ave., Yonkers. The Swope chauffeur and Colyumist Heywood Broun of the World were uninjured in the front seat. Three days later the New York Triplex Safety Glass Co. Inc. shrewdly published an advertisement in the New York World, Times, Herald-Tribune, reproducing the Herald-Tribune's account of the accident (with all names but the Swopes' deleted), with the catchline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life would be not only simpler but pleasanter on the sun drenched shores of Fanua...

Author: By R. T. Sherman ., | Title: MR. FORTUNE'S MAGGOT. By Sylvia Thompson Warner. Viking Press, New York, 1927. $2.00 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...come which surrounds the efforts of the organization. Another potential factor in the lack of college success which the Dramatic Club has met might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club to the possibilities which are within its grasp. Whatever or whoever is to blame for the decline of this body, there is no doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITHER AWAY? | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...seats at entertainments to men who "and gained a victory in the foot races, the pentathlon, the wrestling matches, in that brutal sport, boxing, or in the most fearful of all contests, the pancratium, which is a hand-to-hand fight with nothing barred." He, believed it was wrong to field the city's athletes from the common stores, and to give him a trophy as a gift from the municipality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Xenophanes Proves That There Is Nothing New Under the Sun--Scored Athletic Overemphasis 25 Centuries Ago | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...have several good former college men (I myself am a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and of Cincihnati Law School) but they are scarce. For this there are, in my mind, several important reasons. In the first place, college men come into the baseball game with an entirely wrong attitude. In college they have played for the honor of their school and for the self fame it might bring them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those men who play in college play for recrestion, and not as a duty. They do not have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miller Huggins, Microscopic Manager of the New York Americans, Finds College Men Poor Big League Material | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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