Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who has not yet seen "Swing Time" should correct that definitely. Containing some of the best music to which Astaire and Rogers have danced, it is not hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
...Editor of the London Times, Mr. Geoffrey Dawson, screwed his courage up and up last week, not to the point of printing so much as a word about the King & Mrs. Simpson in the Times, but to the point of making a verbal intimation. Mr. Dawson was correct in assuming that this would be cabled to the U. S., whence it would speed to Buckingham Palace (where clippings by the bale were being sorted last week by Assistant Private Secretary Sir Godfrey Thomas) and be read by King Edward, perhaps with good effect. Said Times Editor Dawson: "The King...
Although no mourner for the U. S. Communist, John Reed. I wish to specifically correct TIME's place of burial for this Soviet sympathizer...
...direct and simple, involving only elementary principles of Mendelian inheritance and no permanent removal of any of Miss Slye's animals from her laboratory, that I cannot see why it should not be supported and begun at once. If Miss Slye's theory is correct, its importance as a practical matter to the human race is great. If it is incorrect, it is high time to recognize that fact generally and end the controversy...
...correct way to estimate the capacity of the shops is to examine their products. In Pierce Hall is a Cathode Ray Oscillograph machine which measures a movement taking place in forty-millionths of a second, the first high-voltage transmitter in the country, and massive soil testing engines whose four foot beams are knife-edged to the accuracy of a thousandth of an inch...