Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already issue three separate kinds of passport, are their citizens of separate "nationalities" or not? The committee was said to be evolving a new theory of "double nationality," permitting a Canadian to cry: "My countries, Canada and the Empire! May they always be right, but my countries, right or wrong...
Steering the interview deftly into quiet channels, Sir Percival soon had Mr. Ford saying: "I think that in England you make too much of your troubles. Take unemployment. There is a great deal of it in England. But your figures are apt to give a wrong impression...
...concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His performances are bound to be uneven. He will bang on the piano unmercifully at times, hit wrong notes, distort the text. But Paderewski has never been a faultless technician. His instrument sometimes magnifies his colossal ideas but occasionally it fails...
Several things went wrong as the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester, Mass. and the Bluenose of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia got ready for the international fishermen's races last week. On the way to Gloucester the fore topmast of Bluenose buckled. The Gertrude L. Thebaud sprang a leak in her stern during a practice spin. She was hauled out and re-calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine...
...newspaper and business paper, financial leaders were berated for an absence of leadership as notable in days of gloom as in bygone days of merrymaking. Consensus of opinion was, in short, that Wall Street had ceased to be either guide or barometer to U. S. Industry: it was wrong in 1929's summer, wrong in 1930's spring, it was therefore more likely to be wrong than right in 1930's autumn...