Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlined by Cosmo Hamilton in yesterday's CRIMSON by which one man censors all manuscripts before the plays are produced would not only be impractical in New York, but it is doubtful even whether it would be the most satisfactory method. In the first place, I believe it is wrong to censor a play before it is produced, for in this way, some new yet valuable idea, might be killed before it could be brought forth upon the world. Next, to place the jurisidiction in the hands of one man would be difficult in New York...
...French coal miners and operators were deadlocked in conference at St. Etienne last week, when M. Tardieu communicated to them his resolve not to tolerate a strike. The operators, he declared, were right when they proposed to cut the price of coal to meet foreign competition† but were wrong in attempting to cut the men's wages low enough to leave the operators' profits unimpaired by the new low price of coal. Similarly, rapped M. Tardieu, the men were wrong in demanding that their wages remain the same while the price of coal was cut. The Government...
...Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
Even this wild effort at modernity, however, cannot save the staleness of a good idea gone wrong. Victor Trench might have been a memorable figure, but he is little better than a strong silent man who is rather dumb. How his hatred of women melts before the gentle magic of Effie's home-making, how his better instincts are aroused in the struggle to protect her, how, when she is dead, he feels her spirit urging him to stick it out--all this makes a thoroughly bad novel, and nothing else...
Right and wrong, after all, are to be judged over a long period of time and anything we say is to be considered merely as another opinion." That is as far as one can go in commenting on Liberty's reaction: it is an opinion. The Dally Illini, April...