Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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According to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, about a dozen students a term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...
...characteristic cry, "Haro! Haro!" . . . became the especial property of the troubadours, clowns and jongleurs . . . Today, it is the familiar circus cry, "Hay Rube!" or "Hey Rube!" which calls on everyone connected with the circus to come to the aid of the one to whom wrong is done...
...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...
Stanley Woodward, former Tribune sports editor who brought Smith to New York from the Philadelphia Record, finds the 44-year-old columnist's sole flaw stems form unalterable belief that no wrong can be done by Notre Dame, his alma mater. There is certainly little to criticize about Smiths' writing; he has his favorite expressions, but he is always fresh...
...Snitchler turned to the wrong college. He called in experts from Colgate University. Colgate Associate Professor of Fine Arts Alfred R. Krakusian agreed with Snitcheler that the bust was typical of those which are wont to decorate college buildings. But Colgate Archivist Howard D. Williams dashed their hopes. He reported that there were no reports of either Tallman or Park at Colgate at the time the statue was carved...