Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nazi Zealot August Scharenbach on orders from Nazi Secret Police Chief Heinrich Himmler. Actually when Unity arrived at Calais last week, French Police Commissionaire Micouleau was able to announce that there was not the slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars had carried Unity safely aboard a Channel packet while her mother held her hand. She looked pale, dull-eyed and tottery but presently sat up, laughed and chattered with her mother...
...This totally wrong war was a self-born evil, and therefore no good can come from it. Every country involved must come to a conference table before irreparable damage has been done. ... If the world does not pause on the brink of catastrophe, all nations will suffer the same fate. . . . Holland has received assurances from the belligerents that her neutrality will be respected, if Holland herself remains neutral...
...first blow for democracy on the very first page: "I am Sally Ann. I help Mother." By page 7, democracy goes to work on Daddy: "I am Father. I help Danny. . . ." Reader I tells tots that it is fun to go to school, shows them the right and wrong ways to play. Reader II, Let's Take Turns, gets into more complicated matters, such as whether it was right for Bob to snatch a book from Betty...
...unlikely to appeal to conservative financiers, even though no more radical an organization than the Rockefeller Foundation has recently begun to spend its capital funds. Most universities are still unwilling to impair their financial integrity for the sake of academic standing. But the solons of university finance would do wrong to reject Mr. Hutchins' proposal in toto, without scanning it for possibilities of compromise. It might, for instance, be an excellent idea to preserve existing endowments intact while spending those which are made in the future. Whatever the economic wisdom of Mr. Hutchins's plan, educational institutions will be forced...
...generals are made. Now he wants an Army Corps. Backed by the dubious Gurau, the rising radical young Deputy who in a previous volume subtly sold out to the oil interests and is now a cabinet minister, Duroure entertains two visiting deputies by provoking an artillery duel which goes wrong, nearly turns his little party into a wake...