Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continual delays throughout the prosecution of the cases is sufficient evidence that there is something vitally wrong. The United States has been extremely negligent in pressing these cases to the utmost. The whole method of procedure smells rotten...
...universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true. Ted Shawn might conceivably do setting-up exercises, claim them as an aboriginal dance, and be hailed has even more of a maestro than...
...Robert Baden-Powell: "While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed. Said Lady Baden-Powell to newsgatherers: 'Sir Robert is just worn out. There is nothing organically wrong with...
Then suddenly, and even more startlingly, he turned political interpreter ; knocked self-satisfied smiles of "our country, right or wrong" off Kiwanian faces; said: "If the time ever comes when public offices can be virtually bought and sold, then the downfall of the Republic...
...another how sweet it is. The audience, surfeited, looks on skeptically, for the kiss-cuddle-coo is supposed to have been continuous for three years, and in Paris. There is a father (Bruce McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden of entertaining the audience through three word-puffed acts. The burden is too great, even though shared...