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Word: wrongness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mabel's Comeback | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Party Life | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams Today and Tomorrow | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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