Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully separated trilogy of American government, built in three concentric spheres, there has generally been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...
Andrew Mellon's bookkeeping has been widely and highly praised for seven and three-quarters years. It has also had its detractors. The Mellon estimates of Treasury surplus have been wrong often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority...
...Carey failed, none of his officers took charge. "The officers of this ship do not seem to measure up to the standard that we would expect in a British ship." And from the whole disaster Inspector Hoover stated there was one great lesson to be learned. Mechanically, nothing went wrong. Humanly, almost everything went wrong. "We must hereafter stress men more than things...
...time in history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...