Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They all curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...
Handsome Spangler Arlington Brugh, 27, got into the movies when a scout saw him in Journey's End at Pomona College, which graduated him in 1933. A matinee idol and shopgirls' delight from the beginning, he got off on the wrong foot when critics dubbed him "Beautiful" Robert Taylor. To counteract this tendency, his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, put him in one two-fisted role after another, swaddled him in he-man publicity. One day last week, Spangler Arlington Brugh took matters into his own hands...
...Corp., big Guggenheim unit, cut the price to 10? and other companies followed. Result: April's high rate of sales continued. Phelps Dodge's President, Louis Shattuck Gates, tall, pleasant, frank, fond of playing poker (because "you can only get mad at yourself if your guess is wrong") remained one rebel against price cutting. Anti-Ford in philosophy, he kept his price at 10½ and consoled himself with the thought that his competitors were bad poker players-while they got the business...
...Hardly should be close to the word it modifies. Wrong: They hardly gave a thought. . . . Correct: They gave hardly a thought...