Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the carpenter was outraged to discover that his hero's salary as Premier is but 90,000 francs a year. Vexed and eager to right what he considered a wrong, the carpenter straightway despatched 1,000 francs ($33) to M. Briand, with the request that he expend it as "pocket money...
...apparently I was wrong and, as I have said, I sincerely apologize. Yours truly, Donald Ogden Stewart, Yale...
...terms of popularity and wants, like the Vicar of Bray, to hold office at all costs. If, however, a man's livelihood and that of his children depends on holding office, it makes it very hard for him to decide to go against public opinion, no matter how wrong he may think...
Though as Joe Cooke has so often said, "I may be wrong." At least I do admit than I am sometimes wrong. For it was only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
...that one is right and the other wrong would be--in the present case--quit silly. After all, charity begins at home. But the truth of the matter might appear to lie in a synthesis of the two views. Prohibition may have helped--but not enough to justify its--function. To this probably neither would agree. The reformation prohibitional like the reformation protestant often befogs eyes otherwise very clear. Yet to add words to such a superfluity of verbiage as has already developed at Washington is certainly futile. Time and the taste of man eventually effect much. Reformers notwithstanding...