Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 12, LETTERS), I herewith make your life complete and break my solemn vow. First, anent footnotes, if you think they belong in the magazine, run 'em. ... If TIME succeeds as you want to run it, you prove that you are right: if it flops, then you are wrong and no breathless tagging in the wandering aimless footsteps of the public can save you anyway. TIME is one of four or five periodicals in America fit for persons of intelligence to read. . . . Particularly do I like your novel phrasing, your occasional Dutch lead, your informality, your nonchalant and indifferent...
...Ulysses Simpson Grant was general of the Federal forces in the Civil War; that he said, "I purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"; that he drank plenty of hard liquor; that he was later President of the U. S. They are wrong. No such person ever did any of these things...
...major irregularities of civic conduct in Pennsylvania-the primary slush funds and Governor Pinchot's petticoat "supergovernment" with the W. C. T. U. (TIME, July 5, CRIME)-may be added a minor sideshow at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. The Sesquicentennial itself will probably come out on the wrong side of the ledger, but Philadelphians are consoled by the knowledge that local politicians will profit handsomely in real estate adjacent to the exhibition site, which it was their august privilege to select...
Viscount Haldane: "Once, when a burglar in the Exchequer Court asked for an accounting against his partner, the Court clapped both into prison. A man cannot invoke his own wrong-doing against...
...slight and he stood quite still for a moment, breathing softly in the dim room. When he found that the room was really empty, he looked around with a quick, frightened turn of his head, as if to make sure that he hadn't got into the wrong flat, and in that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then, a long while later, another smell still, fetid and dark...