Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...remarked that the two main reasons that the right or wrong of Rus sia's action was not included in the A. S. U.'s platform were 1) fear that a statement raising a moral issue over the Finnish war would be used by those seeking to involve the United States, and 2) taking a stand where there was so much disagreement would tend to split the Union...
...fire its movie reviewer if he panned this latest version of Victor Hugo's famous "Hunchback of Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...
Your story on the general wrongness of Genevieve Tabouis was very fine (TIME, Dec. 11). However you say that this remarkable wrong-way prophet is taken more seriously in England and the U. S. A. than in her native France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...
...Hoover an injustice when you say he cannot tell a joke (TIME, Dec. 18). To prove that you're wrong, simply let me refer you to a remark he made a year or two ago, concerning the famous initialed institutions of the New Deal. He said that all but five letters were used in these, and that all we needed was a Quick Loans Corporation for Xylophones, Yachts, and Zithers to exhaust the alphabet. . . . Regardless of whether or not you think this one is funny, it unquestionably comes under the heading of a joke...
...ground as always, Kansas' cadaverous Senator Arthur Capper invited a farmers' meeting at Topeka to tell him what was wrong with the world. Up popped Constituent A. F. McHenry: "The trouble with our Senators and Representatives is we farmers aren't getting anything from them but hot air and oratory. Two fellows down at Baker University won an oratorical contest and now they're in an asylum. I think some of our Senators and Representatives should be there with them...