Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...present evil times for chiropractors they blame vaguely on Dr. Palmer. But Dr. William H. Werner of New York City, slickly barbered president of the American Bureau of Chiropractic and hence technical head of the profession, went to his defense, venomously: "It's all wrong for you to go on cursing and damning and abusing B. J. It is not right folks. He is human. He has his little weaknesses, as who among us has not? He has his faults. But let us not go on cursing, abusing, and damning him. ... I tell you, friends, it gave me a heartache...
...half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...
...Wrong Again", a musical comedy in two acts written by George Barner '30, is the name of the Pi Eta Club show this year, it was officially announced last night. It will be presented in the Club's theatre March 13 and 14, and will be directed jointly by John Bethel ocC, and Gordaon Leach...
Kwong's arguments included the topic that Americans do not understand the Chinese as a civilized race of people, the attitude caused by the press being wrong. When questioned after the debate he made the following statement: "The Chinese are not just laundrymen and restaurant owners; there is a higher class of people, educated people. The abolition of Extra-territoriality will come in China, whether the western nations want it or not, and after it does come China will not be in a more disorganized state, for the foreign interference is a cause of frequent uprisings...
Lincoln was not a happy man. Said his friend and partner Herndon: "His melancholy oozed from him as he walked." Depression led him into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent...