Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were probably the strongest words ever penned by Ambassador Phillips in his 39 years as an impeccably correct, fashionable, circumspect career diplomat. The President kept the confidential report confidential. Ambassador Phillips next turned up in London, as chief political adviser to General Eisenhower...
...failure in our educational system," asserted Palmer. "When only 59 percent of the students at an institution like Harvard know who their senators are, it shows an alarming political apathy among even supposedly wideawake citizens. And it is not only the responsibility of the public schools and universities to correct it; labor unions and political parties can do a lion's share of the job on extensive adult education programs...
Said Franklin Roosevelt: "Joy . . . entered . . . hearts." General John J. Pershing reminisced on: ". . . the heart of France." Correct old Cordell Hull unbended to sum up: "Heartening...
...when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club. He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time...
...with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded. The club pays the correct tax, then keeps what's left, said the city, to cover "breakage." Mayor LaGuardia, who, unlike ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, never goes to nightclubs, wanted to take over that extra money for the City. Billingsley, suave host at the club which draws the bottle-top of the bourgeoisie, could...