Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...never heard of Mr. Paul's Concert Pitch, the best damn musical novel I ever read? As an author myself I don't like to see this - Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership.-ED. slipping of your department editors into the wrong pews. We can take what you dish out to us in our proper place-but don't let your Music people write so coyly of books, or your Art people write so well on crime (Art Gallery Mystery in the same issue...
...muster up any enthusiasm for the picture itself. The story revolves about the eternal "eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest...
...months ago, Houston-born James Newton Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...
Later astronomers abandoned the nebular hypothesis. They found two things wrong with it: 1) it was unlikely that the rings would gather into planets; 2) the "angular momentum" was wrong. Angular momentum can be roughly defined as the amount of rotation in a system. In the solar system the planets have about 98% of the angular momentum, but only one-seventh of 1% of the solar system's mass, the rest being in the sun. The Laplace theory could not account for this discrepancy. It seemed more likely that there had been interference from outside...
...emerged with a staunch conviction that Coolidge was a "genius of the average." (It was this genius, he thinks, which led astray so many sophisticated observers - they looked for the wrong signs, being familiar only with commoner and more spectacular varieties...