Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regard to that depressing thing--the play's message--we cannot say a great deal. It undertakes to be a dramatic discussion of the disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike...
...better than their souls. The "verge of war" is near us. No complaints of what might have been done in the past, no petty cavilling about the present will suffice us now. We must look only to the future, trusting in those who rule the nation to find the correct solution--whether it be peace...
...decided to make this proposal. Will her proposal bear more weight with foreign powers because she is militarily weak? Foreign diplomats will construe our proposal as follows: "We do not want to fight, and besides, we are weak; let us have perpetual peace." And their construction will be correct, for although Mr. Wilson may desire world peace for its own sake, the American people, if it proposes world peace, will do so for the sake of American safety and American interests. It is not likely that America's proposal will be accepted if she says, in effect: "We propose...
After discussing the purpose of the book, which is to give a correct and non-partisan account of the events which led to the outbreak of the European War, by a chronological use of the published dispatches of the nations involved, Professor von Mach pointed out several statements from the Entente nations which tend to show that the action of Great Britain in the closing days of July, 1914, was decidedly incriminating. "It is undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company...
...Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...