Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have the immediate pressure of a race Saturday, since it opens its season against M. I. T. next Thursday in a dual contest, but again high winds this week have limited the necessary mileage. Johnny Abbot's boat is certainly still the starting crew and unless something goes wrong will continue to hold that position...
...Columbia and Mule Day, past the great plantation houses, the slave cabins, the knobby-legged colts and lamb-sprinkled meadows of middle Tennessee; on to St. Louis (750 postmasters and roast lamb) where he went in the wrong door of the Statler Hotel, surprising a letter-carriers' band facing the other...
...inch or two taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...
...three chief worries of both boys & girls were the same: 1) failing a test, 2) mother working too hard, 3) mother getting sick. Other big worries: having a poor report card, father working too hard, people telling lies about you, being late for school, being scolded, doing wrong, getting sick...
...wrong--there's nothing wrong with Calloway--soft spoken and shrewd--he's one of the smartest showmen around. Staying up on the top as an ace attraction for years is no small job--and he's still doing it. And don't let any of this stuff about Cab being king of the tea (marihuanja) fiends fool you. He wouldn't still be going if he consumed the amount of dope he was reputed to. This whackiness legend is strictly for the customers...