Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...abbreviation SS. for Saints. According to my Webster if it were small ss it should be interpreted "shilling-shilling Peter and Paul"; if capital SS, either South-South or Southern Southern Peter and Paul. And I judge the correct abbreviation should be StSt Peter and Paul. I may be wrong...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...
...Maurice Sterne, married the Indian, Tony Luhan, whose laconic realism appealed to her. ("What is your religion," asked Mabel. "Life," said Tony.) Rhapsodizing over sagebrush, Mabel then declared: "The rumble of New York came back to me like the impotent and despairing protest of a race that has gone wrong and is caught in a trap...
...articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does not try to prove that his brand of Communism was right, that of the Stalinites wrong. Given Marx and Lenin, concludes Author Gitlow, Stalinism is inevitable; Fascism also. As for his own role in the Party, Author Gitlow confesses he was no better than the next one -though naturally he credits himself with better brains, if not better morals, than most of his comrades...
...Students are warned that they must take the examination in this course with the section in which they are officially enrolled. A student who takes the examination with the wrong section will lose credit for the course...