Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Aug. 13] you publish a picture of five women in religious garb and call them "dancing nuns." I am going to correct you. These women are not nuns at all, but members of various religious congregations or institutes, and as such pronounce only simple vows at their religious profession. A nun is a member of a religious order and takes solemn vows. There are other differences, too. But, canonically speaking, a nun and a sister are not the same thing. I have noticed before, and often too, that you have made this same mistake. Perhaps, though, as a stripteaser...
...Miss Josephine Piccolo, a Brooklyn textile inspector, he wrote: "My dear Dago: (If I am mistaken in this please correct me) ... Will you please keep your dirty proboscis out of the other 47 states, especially the dear old State of Mississippi...
Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...
These are some of the 200 questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest...
...Count: "Correct, except for the ending. Koch never released me. He held me without food or drink for five days in a cell where two other inmates were tied by the wrists to the ceiling...