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Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON editor let me thank you for your sensible comment on the Princeton situation. I understand the Lampoon's attitude. When Princeton thrashed us in '89 or '90 we went through the same paroxysms and broke off athletic relations. Time has shown us older grads how silly and wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The Old School | 11/13/1926 | See Source »

...chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Imperial Conference | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...special wire to the CRIMSON office from the Stadium made the rush account of the game possible. The problem of rapid transit from the press was met by a taxi equipped with a special traffic mandate allowing it to travel the wrong route on a hole way street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BREAKS RECORDS IN ISSUING TIGER EXTRA | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...always do what is least expected, even when on Harvard's one-yard line. So, wizard though I do not mind being called, I am a bit worried about this Yale-Army business. I'm going to dope it a tie--at any rate I can only be half wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORECAST FAME FLOUTED BY COMEBACK REQUEST | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

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