Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laugh Parade Funnyman Ed Wynn came ambling on stage aboard a camel. Forgetting the correct word to make the camel kneel, he tries several commands, finally whispered ''Goldman Sachs." The camel collapses in a heap...
...courtyard of the House will be decorated with Japanese lanterns strung between the wings, and spotlights will be focused on the tower. White flannels and dark coats will constitute correct male attire for the affair, it was indicated...
...indications and proofs of failure, the author is probably correct. The American people has for years looked to the little red schoolhouse to remake the world, and has showered money on educational machinery to bring about a millennium. This has failed miserably; typical products of the methods in use are the Philistines, the Babbitts, who cramp all progress by their unthinking complacency. A further indictment of the public school system is evident in the predominance of youth among the criminals and gangsters. Warden Lawes has recently stated that in the last few years he has often looked at his prisoners...
...chief technical difficulties were: to dry four layers of ink in a fraction of a second; to find color pigments cheap enough to be practicable; to correct "register" at high speed. While Mr. Wood experimented, Col. McCormick was not idle. In an effort to make his pressmen color-conscious he had them experiment with the old fashioned makeready color processes until they could turn out fairly presentable two-and three-color advertisements. Last week's crude red frontpage cartoon was the last step in the Tribune's color education before graduating to the complicated four-color Wood presses...
...Senator Walsh just said he believes international bankers have smashed the market to force the United States into a position where we must cancel War Debts. Do you think he is correct in that belief? A. All those stones are ridiculous, it seems to me. Mr. Rockefeller told the committee he met Ben Smith when Smith sold him one of his first automobiles, some 20 years ago. His own losses, he said, had been "terrible...