Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food...
...Significance. Author Sitwell thinks Pope was not only the most correct, most polished of English poets, but one of the greatest. Of late years the stock of the Romantics has slumped, that of the 18th Century has risen. Edith Sitwell has not said in this book that Pope is the greatest English poet, but soon someone will...
Herbert Hoover is a president in the correct sense of the word. No Irishman is. But there is a man called "The President of the Irish Free State." * Last week he had to resign...
...attitude is somewhat frowned upon, the omission of substitutions is not altogether in accordance with the athletic policy. However, the grads are yelling for a victory over the Elis and a crew which follows the present system will, if the example of the other colleges is correct, put the eight closer to the money. Still the grads will probably yell and kick violently if the crew doesn't win by a large enough margin. In the meantime, oarsmen who have been beaten will be still able to carry on in the world...
...those of the Yale fencing team who, he says, received a major letter, I wish to correct an erroneous impression which has already called forth some comment here at college...