Search Details

Word: wrongfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Marie's Return. A Queen like Marie can do no wrong in Rumania. What if a charred scandal had blazed up for a moment with the ripping out of her telephone? The realistic attitude of typical Rumanians is merely this: No one disputes the legitimacy of King Carol, Prince Nicholas or their sisters, the former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and the present Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. If, after giving King Ferdinand these four children, Her Majesty then gave Prince Babu Stirbey her last and youngest child. Princess Ileana, is that anyone's business but her own? In Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: King at Work | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Harker, genial villain of the piece, is not only a member of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association's executive committee but has a penchant for employing tennis champions: he seems to think it helps him in his business. For a long time David sees nothing wrong with the picture. Mr. Harker pays him to sell bonds but insists on his playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments. David comes up to expectations, beats the best of them, recaptures the Davis Cup from France almost singlehanded, goes on from glory to glory. Finally, when his sensible little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Racket Racket | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Some time prior the Committee had heard Lawyer Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York political giftmaker, testify that he had contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon's anti-Smith Presidential campaign in Virginia (May 19). While on its face nothing was wrong with this contribution, it was mostly in cash, and Wisconsin's Senator John James Elaine, Mon tana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, the only lobby lions present, apparently thought something pertinent to their investigation lay hid behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cannon v. Inquisitors | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen him proved in action, but feel the difference between his class and theirs. Officers resent this, think it wrong for him to be in the ranks. Finally his captain persuades him to put in for a commission. Bourne, having grown into the private soldier's ways of life and feelings about officers, agrees against his will would rather stay a private. He comes through another battle unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Front Englished | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...individual teams. If the fundamental desire to win no longer burns in the hearts of Princeton athletes, then New Jersey human nature has undergone some very remarkable changes. But if specific victories and defeats have come to be the sole measure of athletic morale, than there is something wrong with Princeton indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Business of Athletics | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

First | Previous | 6118 | 6119 | 6120 | 6121 | 6122 | 6123 | 6124 | 6125 | 6126 | 6127 | 6128 | 6129 | 6130 | 6131 | 6132 | 6133 | 6134 | 6135 | 6136 | 6137 | 6138 | Next | Last