Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...platonic, but when, overborne with passion, she comes to give herself to him, he is disgusted and dismayed, shows her as gently as possible her mistake. "In after years ... he learnt that she spoke of him with evident animosity as of one who had done her a grievous wrong...
...good but disagreeable job with a horribly inconsiderate rich family, who treat her like a servant, search her room when anything: is missing. The English tutor never speaks to her in the daytime, but tries to get into her room every night. When everything has gone hopelessly wrong, one night she leaves the door ajar...
There are many, no doubt, who find something wrong in the picture of tomorrow's leading citizens brazenly breaking the laws of state and nation. The undergraduates themselves are certainly far from satisfied with the hypocritical position into which they are forced and they have every reason to feel strong resentment against the generation which has left them so dubious a legacy and so difficult a problem. The ranks of the drys will find few recruits among the men Harvard sends out in the world...
...grey silk traveling gloves. "When I learned that she had come to visit the Grand Duchess* it would have been too late to request an audience. I would not have done it in any case, however, because it would have been considered tactless and would have given a wrong impression at the very moment when Austrian Catholics were demanding an investigation of the legitimacy of the confiscation of Habsburg property...
When Coke trained for his fight with O'Keefe, everything seemed to go wrong: he was overweight, his camp was so badly managed he had to run it himself, his legs felt dead. Just before the fight Regan, again drunk, went to Coke's dressing room and told him who his wife's lover was. Coke went out to meet defeat with nothing but despair in his heart. For eight rounds he went hammer & tongs, batted O'Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew...