Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late King George V, riding to a shoot in plus fours and gaiters on his little grey pony, Jock, was commissioned by Queen Mary. On Derby Day, 1925, Munnings became a member of the Royal Academy. In his work, as in his life, he is tweedy and correct...
...advertising agents, printers, librarians (with 690 lending libraries) and operators of 1,422 railway and subway bookstalls, 357 shops in London and the provinces. They employ 4,000 bicycling newsboys, operate a fleet of 400 big red trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over...
Byron (affairing with calm Lady Oxford, who told him, "a broken heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...
...would strictly control the production, financing, prices, labor of all U. S. industry. Their job in peace is to review the minutely detailed plans for industrial mobilization drawn up by the War & Navy Departments, bring to bear the imposing sum of their knowledge and experience to spot and correct any defects...
...language used furthers the writer's intended effect, it is good; so far as it fails to further that effect, it is bad, no matter how 'correct...