Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Crimson's. Their challenge was issued in the confidence that their advantages would make it foolhardy for me to accept. It is foolhardy, but nevertheless I accept the challenge. I do so because I have an inherent faith in the fact that what I am doing is not wrong, but is constructive and sound educational practice and theory. I have a deep feeling that even with the superior talents of Mr. Evarts, some judge might be persuaded that the Crimson attack on me is not the sort of thing that can be done and gotten away with...
...TIME IS RIGHT AND I AM WRONG AND SAM JONES WINS, I WILL GO TO NEW YORK, CLIMB A FLAGPOLE ON TIME-LIFE BUILDING, AND AT HIGH NOON ON FEB. 29 I WILL CHEW UP AND EAT ONE COMPLETE ISSUE OF TIME...
...claimed that he could do a real job if the studio would only give him a chance. The critics confirmed this in their reviews of "Night Must Fall" but the public was only bewildered to see good old light-hearted Bob playing a murderous bellhop. They laughed in the wrong places. Not this time, however. As the tension gathered, in the last half hour of the film and "Silky" Kilmount, now twelfth Earl of Galay, is condemned by his peers to be "hanged by the neck until he be dead" there were no laughs but plenty of noses being blown...
...years after he left the U. S. Navy in 1919, Chemist Peacock worked unsuccessfully on a process to prevent tarnishing of silverware. He became the only mirror consultant in the U. S. ten years ago, when Hires Turner called him in to see what was wrong with its silvering solution. Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer...
From long experience, audiences know at first blush that the high-minded young man with whom Clerk Klara Novak (Mar garet Sullavan) is corresponding through a lonely-hearts hookup is her detested fellow clerk, Kralik (James Stewart). They also know that Hugo Matuschek is all wrong in suspecting Kralik of mis conduct with Mrs. Matuschek. The culprit, as everybody else can see, is oily Clerk Vadas. The outcome is equally certain...