Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes to her at once; so does Bascom. When the Civil War breaks...
...hires a big hall, plasters his posters around town, delivers lectures on the newest developments in U. S. business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...
...would be wrong to lure and coax Indian representatives to the round table conference over here with vague phrases about Dominion status when it is quite certain that these Indian politicians will not obtain Dominion status in their life-times...
...fight over the mixed babies of the two families (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4). Argumentative Mr. Watkins was not at home. But Mrs. Watkins was. She and the Bambergers now decided, with Commissioner Kegel's persuasion, that for over a month they had been nursing the wrong infants. Under the commissioner's approving smile the mothers removed the babies' clothes, which they were certain belonged to them, kissed the infants, exchanged them, wept. When Mr. Watkins returned home from a baseball game he exclaimed: "They took advantage of my wife. . . . I'll sue." The now Watkins...
...church but when I came back I entered the hospital to have my nose fixed. I held up my entry into the hospital because I knew that Sister was having her face lifted the same as I had done before. We both had face lifts. There's nothing wrong in that, is there...