Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...distrust begins with Republicans. Heywood Broun had a story about his Republican grandmother, who, when told that raging floods were sweeping New England, snapped: "Democrats!" While never entirely absolving the Democrats when anything goes wrong, Josephson is more inclined to snap: Republicans! First Republican President maker in this book, which covers the period from 1896 to 1919, is Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the Ohio boss credited with electing McKinley and coming the expression: Stand pat! Second Republican President maker is Roosevelt I, who in so far as McKinley's assassin did not make him President, made himself President. He also...
...Copley Productions is merely trying to give Boston a better than average taste of amateur theatricals, they're doing a first rate job. But if they seriously consider themselves a testing ground for plays of Broadway calibre, they're very definitely nestling in the wrong pew. Their offering this week, "Return Engagement," looks like a very bad combination of "Stage Door" and "Charley's Aunt." The title of the play shows at least a sense of humor on the part of the author--it very definitely is a return engagement of something you've seen innumerable times before...
Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma chimed in with the assertion that the U. S. is "taking step after step in the wrong direction, which might precipitate her into the vortex of armed conflict." Spokesman Suma paid his respects to a suggestion by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard that the U. S. send a commission to Japan to improve U. S.-Japanese relations. Such a commission could be effective only if the two Governments were in agreement on fundamentals, said Yakichiro Suma, "and they have no mutual grounds any more...
...from the dank sub-cellars of contemporary society, where like an exterminating virus it had developed in the dark. Here socialism first ceased to be merely a theory and became a political reality. Here it prepared to master a great State, rule 170,000,000 people. But Lenin was wrong about the world revolution. It was not until 20 years later that three variants of socialism-Stalinism, Naziism, Fascism-were to combine under German leadership in a world revolution against democratic, capitalist civilization...
...preserved except by strengthening our own armed forces and by giving all possible aid to those nations who are defending our democracy by defending their own. But the fact that these academic colleagues of ours are seeking to maintain American freedom by travelling what we believe to be the wrong roads is no reason for asking them to resign from the fellowship of university scholars...