Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...meant to include private indebtedness. If papers had not made that clear, it was the reporters' fault. Mr. Currie's memo proved it. Remembering how the President had wandered from the memo, the reporters thought but did not say: "That's right, you're wrong...
...Bellevue. Forney changed his mind, then. Bellevue, the grim collection of buildings where innumerable sordid little dramas of the city have ended, is perhaps the most famed municipal hospital in the U. S. Many drunks are taken there, but they seldom go voluntarily. Forney decided there was something else wrong with his fare. Bellevue was 70 blocks away...
There is no doubt that we were all wrong, that Artie Show is an eminently sane young man, and that his critics are raving idiots...
...quit the university because her grandmother dies without leaving any money. Danielle, as Lydia, tries every means to earn herself a living; that is, except the unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate her for the wrong reasons, but manages to stand them off, starving all the while. In desperation she poses as the daughter of an old flame of Jacques Ferney, eminent historian, who was young once, too. She gets away with it for a while, and the ensuing mess, complicated as it is by Ferney...
...does not believe." In other words, she upholds the right of a minority to speak for a group whom it claims to represent--and for whose silence it has made all necessary provisions. The President and his First Lady may be reconciled by the thought that they are both wrong. American youth should vent its views however "immature" they may be; this is not only its right but its duty. On the other hand, it should not interpret its freedom of speech as the right to "eject" the irksome opponent--and to talk on behalf of the gagged...