Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...
...People were wrong to say that Clemenceau was an antifeminist. In giving women franchise and social liberty, he did fear the influence on them by the clergy. Accordingly he was against too much power for women in Catholic countries. The Protestant religion he considered more as a philosophy, and he admitted therefore that universal suffrage was feasible in Protestant countries...
Four hundred million Chinamen seemed to be wrong last week, or at least totally incapable of setting right the affairs of their country...
...Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then was put out himself by Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie. He did the same thing on the next hole and then Diegel won three in a row to get his name on the radio...
...What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged...