Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Indo-China. Burma across the way, recently made to bristle with R. A. F. land ing fields (military and naval airfields indicated by red and white windsocks, commercial airfields by blue and white), would probably have to be left until later; but in any case it is on the wrong side of the peninsula for naval action...
...tons (previous record: 106,101 tons, July 21, 1936). Part of this was due to a price increase. As usual the price booster was Copperman No. 3, Phelps Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley and Kennecott's Steve Birch, stamp it O.K. This time (with one eye on Washington) they did. Figuring this was just a starter, their customers bought...
...bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. With that motto as his back drop, Hiram Warren Johnson slicked his parted white hair and posed for photographers. Said he: "I am, as my grandmother used to say, as happy as a clam at high tide." The happy clam had just been triple-nominated for his fifth term...
Fortnight ago, after brooding over St.Paul's for 21 years, Mr. Chapman, now a dairy farmer in Barrytown, N.Y., told his story and the low-down on his famous old school in a book: The Wrong Attitude: A Bad Boy at a Good School (Putnam...
...Paul boys cannot mistake the characters pilloried in The Wrong Attitude. One, whom Chanler grew to dis like so ardently that he carried a piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...