Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembers her husband, the late King Constantine of Greece, he who guessed wrong in siding with his brother-in-law, Wilhelm II, during the War. No one would remember her second and favorite son, King Alexander of Greece, had he not died sensationally of a monkey bite. Today her eldest son, the deposed King George II of Greece, is a charming though impecunious guest at the Rumanian and British Courts, being especially favored by his royal & imperial second cousin once removed, George...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...
...course I may be wrong but I think it shows a lacking of respectfulness for one of the world's greatest women when you said the following: "Among singers who will appear is old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, in her 'positive farewell to the Pacific Coast...
...explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami at no man's behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood...
...effect that her "confession" was a document prepared for her by one John M. Timmons, a retired merchant, friend of Ben Bess. Timmons paid her $50, she said, for signing the document. She, illiterate, had not read it. She thought it just meant she forgave Ben Bess "for the wrong he had done her." Mrs. Collins, now threatened with perjury proceedings, maintained as at the original trial that Ben Bess raped...