Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Wheatley (onetime Laborite Minister of Health) : "The Government's slogan seems to be, 'Our class, right or wrong. . . .' The German miners have to work eight hours instead of seven to pay war reparations. If our miners work eight hours to compete with them, the Germans will have to work nine. . . . Who gains, except our ruling class...
...Moral principles are at the base of all permanent business success- they go together. In the long run, every business question, every public question must be settled by what is right and what is wrong," he once declared. These business ideas, fantastic in their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which...
Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
Sirs: Let Mr. Busch of Madison condone the action of Sportsman Salm, noble fellow-countryman, as reported in TIME, June 7, 1926, MISCELLANY. Or do I wrong Mr. Busch by saying "fellow-countryman...