Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hardy Oregon woman, who had talked more with U. S. correspondents than any other Tokyo leader, knew pretty well the U. S. state of mind. He knew that Americans considered the China war a nuisance (since it kept the U. S. Fleet tied down in the wrong ocean), a tragedy (because the weaker and righter side seemed to U. S. citizens to be the same), a reproach (because self-righteous Americans thought the U. S. should have been able to end the war long ago). But hfc also knew that the U. S. was divided umpteen ways on what...
...Roosevelt was probably wrong: the run of Democrats will never get to know Henry Wallace very well. When he stares down at voters waiting for political words, which he essentially despises, he will undoubtedly reflect that they ought to be sitting under shade trees, dreaming just for the fun of dreaming. He has said: "... I believe that most of us, once the opportunity is afforded, will discover within ourselves a variety of stimulating and pleasant things to do." He has listed dreaming as one of the worth-while occupations. To Henry Wallace, campaigning in nightmarish 1940 will...
What really rubbed Britons the wrong way was enforcement. Last week 17 people were sentenced and fined a total of 123 weeks and ?162 for defeatist chatter, most of it harmless. Harry Blessingdon, a young engineer who had built an airport, was caught telling a Church of England canon about it in a hotel lobby. Sentence: three months, ?60. William Henry Garbett, a Birmingham clerk and Oxford Grouper, said over lunch: "It will be a good job when the British Empire is finished." Sentence: one year. A Leicester schoolteacher, Kathleen Mary Bursnall, got two months, ?20, for saying to soldiers...
...sooner was the sun up than bells began to jangle louder than ever in the Free Press city room. Baffled again was Editor Martin until he managed to calm one reader down, demanded: "What on earth is wrong now?" Said his caller: "Hold that picture of Roosevelt up to the light." Editor Martin did. The swastika which appeared on the Roosevelt face showed through from an anti-Nazi cartoon on the reverse side of the page...
...Amarillo post office took shape, Texas cowhands said some mighty sharp things about WPAinter Julius Woeltz. Artist Woeltz had painted cowboys loading unbranded cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...