Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Reaction. Said Candidate Roosevelt: "A grand speech and splendidly given before an appreciative nation." Said Candidate Willkie: "Well, there can't be anything more wrong than 100% wrong." Said the New York Times with unusual asperity: "A line of attack which does no credit to him or his party. ... If this says anything, it says that a vote for Mr. Willkie is a vote for Hitler. That is an unjust charge, because the record shows that Mr. Willkie has been just as straightforward as Mr. Roosevelt in his condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well...
...from Rio in a special car supplied by the Brazilian government. Besides the customary visits to the important factories and conferences with business men and politics, the stay in Sao Paulo was marked by a basketball game with a local college--final score 15-3 with Harvard on the wrong...
...refrain from referring to the latest Gallup Poll . . . which purports to show that in my home State of Montana 64% of the people favor peacetime conscription! I believe I know Montanans better than all of Mr. Gallup's Pollers and I can assure you that Dr. Gallup is wrong-woefully wrong-when he indicates that Montana, or any Western or Midwestern State, shows majorities for peacetime conscription...
...afraid I shall never be able to accomplish anything sensational, but tackling the Alps will be a relief after the terrible strain we are feeling now. No. I won't talk politics! All my prophecies have been so utterly wrong that it is useless to indulge in more guesswork...
...addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses "after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence of his personal secretary, whom he calls "Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore, visiting a Santa Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking...