Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
Unfortunately they picked the wrong car. The irate owner appeared shortly thereafter, followed by the arm of the law. They were further befuddled when removed from the car and put to bed in the Cambridge cooler...
...sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...
...they have three youngsters, all bird-lovers and naturalists like dad, all until two years ago fully convinced of dad's infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...