Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Year and a half ago a Royal Commission headed by Anthropologist Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, left England for the West Indies to find out what was wrong with that restless segment of Empire. In Jamaica the Commission got its first smell of economic and physical deterioration. That sunny island, whose white 2% of the population (largely descendants of "lazy and immoral" Irish girls, "Scotch rogues and vagabonds" sent there by Oliver Cromwell) rules its black 98% (descendants of West African slaves), was in such a state that the two female members of the Commission pressed handkerchiefs to their noses...
...opinions concerning the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. "Kitty" gave a typical reply. "I'll agree that Bacon wrote Shakespeare if you'll tell me who wrote Bacon." It is also said that one night he met two students, who were trying to sing "Frankie and Johnny." "You have it all wrong," he said. Then he stood on the sidewalk and personally gave them the correct version...
...comprehensive anti-New Deal program of last week, passed it by, intentionally or otherwise. Thus beset on two flanks at once, the New Deal will find its leftist critics the hardest to answer. Mr. Roosevelt, when he roundly spanked the AYC on his front lawn recently, was wrong in interpreting that hurt look in the eyes of his audience as youthful and impetuous defiance; it was bitter disappointment in the Administration's lukewarm neutrality...
International frictions, like Paris frocks, run to style. And just as frocks which pursue vogue too breathlessly make ladies stick out in the wrong places, stylish frictions often make nations look silly. Recent fashion in creating conflicts has been to discover an oppressed minority. Last week, as long-smoldering Hungarian-Rumanian feelings suddenly flared up, the style slipped over into the realm of absurdity...
...Saturday Evening Post (interesting to note what magazines the offense and defense find refuge in), Dorsey said in effect that Jitterbugs had just as much right to their style of dancing as did the swing musicians to their style of playing; and that anyway, there was nothing wrong with most Jitterbugs; that while rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar to the Jitterbug world. He adds the rather telling point that Jitterbugging to the stimulus of a couple of cokes is much better than doing the Charleston--badly...