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Word: wrongs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flonzaleys," a critic once wrote, "must certainly eat of the same loaf, drink of the same cup." This critic, too, guessed wrong. Away from their music they have led friendly but separate lives. They traveled together, by necessity, but each one sat by himself, usually reading. In Manhattan, where they were most often, they stayed at separate hotels. For a month in the summer they took vacations apart. Two other months a year they spent in making programs and practicing in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps near the Villa Flonzaley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flonzaley Farewell | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Meanings of 'Right' and 'Wrong'", Professor Perry, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...movie comedian and the rise of the talkies in the motion picture industry were the topics which Harry Langdon, famous movie comedian, now appearing at the Keith Albee Theatre discussed with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Anybody who thinks the life of a movie actor an easy one is all wrong," said Harry. "It takes me about 14 weeks to make a picture and in that time I have to work hard all day. Then, because of tremendous overhead, which sometimes amounts to $10,000 a day, we have to do night sequences in which we work some four hours extra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harry Langdon Describes Trials and Hardships of Being a Movie Star--Is Now Training His Voice to Enter Talkies | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

...Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yates in Cuba | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...fundamental assumption of Mr. Brock's article, of all its brethren which have crowded the public prints lately and indeed of the House Plan itself, is that what is wrong with Harvard College can be made right by the creation of new moulds into which to pour the malleable masses that now choke the educational machinery in Cambridge. Judging by undergraduate opposition to the House Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS IT THE FAULT? | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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