Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the impression that to be a member of Tammany Hall one must be a member of the Roman Catholic church. Will you please advise me if this is correct and if so whether Smith was the only Presidential candidate belonging to Tammany...
These words are Spanish whereas in Brazil only Portuguese (not Spanish) is spoken (or didn't you know it?) and therefore the correct spelling is "Senhor," "Senhora" and "Senhorita...
...choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what had happened at remote Fort Vanguardia. The significance of such diplomatic procedure-senseless and mischievous, though perfectly "correct" and "usual"-is of greater importance to the world than any additional blood which may be spilled between 2,155,000 Bolivians and 853,000 Paraguayans-scarcely as numerous as the denizens of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...
...condition. In England censorship of the official medical bulletins by Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks grew so drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...
...glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used to be the nursery. Here two fantastically funny friends of hers invent flowering amusements; then the music box plays and Linda dances with Johnny Case, her sister's fiance...