Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
MISS EARHART STULTZ GORDON BURRY BASIN WALES (COLLECT) IF YOU NEED IT ANY NEW SUITS SEE MY FRIENDS JULES ROSENWEIN AND MOE EINSTEIN PETTICOAT LANE STOP MENTION MY NAME STOP FIRST CLASS GOODS STOP YOU CANT GO WRONG STOP...
...little wooden ship who had made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told him to put his boat on a starting line. They would race from Cincinnati upstream to New Richmond, 22 miles. Bells jangled, smoke belched, the skippers bawled orders through megaphones. The Chris Greene started ahead, with the Betsy Ann hanging alongside, taking smart advantage of the Chris Greene...
...late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong with the beds. They withdrew. The Senator concluded his story: "It was evident . . . that I was both indignant and watchful." The hotel men's story was that a maid had reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter...
...lifeboat until the man had been sighted, nor would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now married; his former wife's name is not Jeanne but Eugenia. Perhaps as you say "no one could guess why Morgan (wrong again) Hoyt should have wished to leave J:he bright (?) ship," etc., but some of them seem to have made a pretty good job of trying...