Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate reminded all Europe that the difference between maneuvers and real war is that maneuvers can be called off if the troops get stalled, the tanks run out of gas, the weather gets bad, the people get restless, the boss gets sick, the theories prove wrong, and the generals begin to quarrel...
Recently members of Parliament's Press Gallery, unable to believe their ears at foreign policy debates, suggested that perhaps there was something wrong with House of Commons acoustics. In Commissioner Ramsbotham's favorite language, Latin, they invited him to break Parliamentary rules,* come up and listen. His department could authorize repairs, if needed. Commissioner Ramsbotham accepted, listened for an hour. Said he (in letter-perfect Latin...
...Dorothy Dix published her second volume of distilled love-lore for the pathetic public that sends her more than 500 letters daily. Wives with husband trouble will read that they must be patient. Husbands in woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken up with locating...
...after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before all the men for four days. They started to do so, but an old woman spoiled the atonement by throwing a blanket around her granddaughter...
...Hollywood's Columbia Pictures, however, once imported from Texas 200 fireflies as atmosphere props for a scene in a Grace Moore picture, and these were so vigorous on arrival that they got into the wrong places (literally including the director's hair), spoiled scenes by indiscriminate flashing, had to be cleared out. The firefly scene was shot with artificial electric fireflies suspended on wires...