Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being presented as the great choice between following the path toward peace or the path toward war. In the Senate and in public mass meetings, if the World Court is a political issue, as it seems to be, that is all right. In the colleges it is all wrong. College students should be kept free of mass meetings and propaganda on this question. It should remain an academic question--mark the word...
That Fellow who dances as if his life depended on it is a Dancing Man. No you are quite Wrong; his life does Not depend on it. Only his Supper Bills would suffer, if he were never to dance Another Step. As matters now stand, I suppose that only the Daughters will suffer. Their Mothers think he dances Divinely and won't hear a Word against him. He is the Only man on the floor who can Waltz...
...opening evening the audience was obviously bewildered. It seemed to expect that at any moment the play would suddenly become Seventeen with an English accent. Such development did not take place, but the audience laughed at the wrong time just the same. Scarcely in the memory of the staunchest theatregoer has there been such a flagrant example of ill manners and incomprehensible stupidity on the part of men and women who marry and go through the other forms of presumably intelligent adulthood...
Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
...what Senator Bruce says is true, you were not only wrong in every possible way, when you said in your issue of Oct. 19 that Chief Justice Fuller was the "only Roman Catholic" Chief Justice, but you were wrong again in your issue of Oct. 26, when you say that "the attributes erroneously attached to the name of Chief Justice Fuller were really those of his eminent successor, the late Chief Justice White...