Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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TIME'S breezy and authentic sounding pages under the captions World War and Foreign News in the April 22 issue at first quite swept me off my feet. Gradually, however, I was asking myself "What's wrong with all these stories...
...suddenly looked up from World War II. For the first time in many months, he was concerned enough to be angry about a domestic matter. His jaw jutted up & out. His voice rang with its old, terrible certainty that he was right and a great many other people were wrong. He announced that ignorance, gullibility or politics moved those who differed with him on the matter at hand. He repeated: ignorance, gullibility, politics. He said that he was being frightfully polite when he called some of his opponents "well-intentioned people." Cold fire was in his eyes, blazing across...
...collection of records-gifts of the Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve, and when the professionals appear the orchestra really goes to town...
...personal damage done in grade-crossing and other accidents, U. S. railroads pay out over $20,000,000 a year. For damage done to them, they collect little or nothing. Average jury's rule of thumb: the carrier is always wrong. Last week the rule was proved by an exception...
...long time it's been my opinion-and perhaps I'm all wrong that the best jazz music you and I have never heard, has been recorded since 1931. Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about the "jazz classics" where you have the privilege of paying a small fortune to hear Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell grunt into their respective instruments on a pretty label. I'm, talking about the records-six bits down-of the Count and the Duke, of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, Bittle Holiday and Mildred Balley, Fats Waller and Frankle Newton...