Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Yorkshire was listing to starboard and something seemed to be wrong with the life boat, as it did not appear...
...Hickory. Dogged adherence to fixed ideas, independence, equality, a tradition for violence and abhorrence of ostentation-upon all these Tennessee prides herself. She likes to think she inherited them from Andrew Jackson, the old border fighter and duelist who declared: "Ask nothing but what is right, submit to nothing wrong. . . . True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and producing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy." Old Hickory's shoots still spring green in the Volunteer State...
Correspondent Fleisher has been wrong before, but Prince Konoye is a good bet to pick up where the aimless Abe Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...
...specific illustrated lessons included in the handbook is on "Tanks-The Right and Wrong...
Then something went wrong. In 1935 Publisher McNelis declared her corporation bankrupt, admitted liabilities of $400,000. She blamed high printing costs. But a Federal Grand Jury accused her of falsifying circulation figures, withholding some $1,000,000 in rebates due advertisers. With three of her associates, Catherine McNelis was indicted for using the mails to defraud...