Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college professor . . . admits that he is a Communist, no college will take him. If there are any college presidents who really believe in academic freedom, they are too busy battling their trustees on behalf of the radicals they already have to take on any more. (I hope I am wrong. If I am, any college president who wants to prove it can have both my apologies and my services...
...Bowling vernacular for a ball that curves too far across the alley, hits the head pin on the wrong side...
...curvy star just can't figure out why she's criticized. She empties churches, thousands flock to see her. "But many people think that because there is such a big box office there must be something wrong...
...Monday, the 7th day of last March, I met Mr. Richard Whitney for the first time. He then told me in effect that certain of his actions had been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental...
...Goes West and Topper, makes spooks into amiable comedians. Without the sparkle and ingenuity of its predecessors, it is nevertheless a great show of trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other one. "Non, non!" protests the superstitious third, "Pas trois...