Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...election they simply had to vote for one union or none. One day 8,000 of them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen, paraded through the shops and streets with placards reading: "We're for George F."; "George F. Can't Be Wrong"; "Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that George F. was feeling better. Election day, after George F.'s workers had voted from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., NLRB tellers...
...number of occasions I have made the observation that it is wrong to drive with one arm and hug your girl with the other," the registrar said, "because such operation would seem to indicate that both the driving and the girl are being neglected. In order to be properly handled, both operations require the use of both arms. I shall continue to take away licenses from operators so neglectful." --Boston Traveler...
...From my experience with French E tutoring, the supposedly 'spot passages' infallibly seem to be wrong, and the notes on content are so general they are of little or no value for specific questions...
...have expressed the opinion that some of the notes which they have purchased have been so full of errors as to prove useless; others have pointed out that so-called 'word lists' sold by certain bureaus do not contain the proper words and that many of the words are wrong," Dean Hanford says...
Death. Some 20 years ago, Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...