Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Robinson, bound for Albany, whirled in an automobile through a narrow one-way street in Hastings, N. Y. Around a corner, going the wrong way, appeared a taxicab. Voices shouted, brakes screamed, the cars stopped without crashing, no one was hurt...
...word, Count Keyserling scans the peoples of Europe, one by one, and seeks wittily to show that those are most nearly nitwits who are most ready to shout: "My country, may she ever be right! But my country, right or wrong...
...Greater Germany" [including Austria] "will once again become the determinant factor of history." But they will always be blamed for their conquests, because, unlike Englishmen, they are known to know when they have done wrong...
...close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they had proceeded for about a mile the motor began to backfire. Father Dubuc leaned down to see what was wrong. There was a sharp detonation and a sheet of flame from the exploding gasoline tank...
...Bloem, vice president of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association: "It would be unsportsmanlike to use a player against whom charges are pending." Thus the player-writer rule rapped the fingers of Tilden. Ready commentators said Tilden will play no more tennis, will go into vaudeville. The first prediction was wrong; Tilden accepted the bid to play in the Newport Casino tournament, on whose cup he has two legs. The other prediction may be correct. It was neither confirmed nor denied by Tilden, whose trial for alleged player-writer rule violations was set for August...