Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been to defend that front were now coiled up like an anchovy on the wrong side of the German lines...
Born. To Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 33, who on July 17, 1938 took off solo from Brooklyn, headed (said he) for Los Angeles, alighted in Ireland, and Elizabeth Marvin Corrigan, 33: a 6-lb. son, their first; in Los Angeles...
...sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley, or perhaps his best friend, to sashay her hips around while walking down the street, the fact remains that she sags in the wrong places, and that she never looks more than sultry, which is only remotely related to heat. This isn't to say that we don't all think Annie is a great girl, and that we don't love her ever so much, but it would be pretty boring...
Neville Chamberlain's vein of self-sufficient obstinacy made him believe he could cope with them and made the desperate, traumatic old Empire believe in him, while Adolf Hitler repeatedly proved him wrong. It would not be too fantastic for Hitler to have hastened last week's invasion of the Low Countries in an effort to take advantage of the Cabinet crisis, to keep Chamberlain in power. If that was his intention, Britain for once had fooled him. Without Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon and other appeasers, she turned at last to face her destiny...
...wrong foot by using a virtually uncut version of the play. This mistake he tried to remedy by having the cast race through some of their lines, swallow others. Whatever virtues the production had were purely pictorial, for the comedy scenes missed fire, the romantic scenes lacked...