Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talked to all the men I could meet. Today's game will be close; it will go into extra innings; the auspices all point that way. I have found trouble in reading the omens accurately; it is always so with close games, and we are all liable to be wrong. The probable score will be 6 to 5 in favor of the Cubs. It seems to be so written...
They asked him if he thought he was the whole Board. Said he: "We haven't had a divided vote in the Board. I can, therefore, reasonably be held responsible. . . . You have the right fellow here and if it has been wrong you can crucify...
...hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...heroine, June Collyer, makes a very pleasant nurse in feature and form, and to our mind the appearance of the leading lady in the average movie is often the deciding factor in placing it on the right or the wrong side of the fence...
Pool. Merger-shouters predicting a combination of Johns-Manville Corp., Insulite Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. were wrong last week. Instead, both Johns-Manville Corp. and U. S. Gypsum Co. entered into marketing and distributing pools with Insulite Co., remained competitors of each other. The Manville-Insulite agreement is that Johns-Manville Corp. will use and market Insulite's rigid wall board, insulated against heat (used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite...