Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is Wrong...
Last week, while the universities beat torn toms to stir up their alumni, mildly, preciously intellectual Vanity Fair and the brusque, factitious American Mercury, told what lacks and is wrong in U. S. higher education...
...land. It is a recognized fact that there are a great many laws which are violated every day. Some people are too good to obey the laws, or too thirsty. As a result of this constant violation it is hard to tell what is right and what is wrong." He went on to show that neither laws nor religions could determine right and wrong and proved his statements with forceful examples. "It can not be conscience that determines this difference," he went on, "for that is merely a state of mind and varies with the institutions of a community...
...remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America...
...explanation came, last week, except the guess that enemies of Composer Strauss must have devised this cruel means to hound an old man out of Vienna, to perhaps drive him mad. Herr Strauss has many enemies; for he has played many a practical joke, sometimes leading an orchestra deliberately wrong and then reviling the know-nothing audience when it applauds...