Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect too much of Stanley Baldwin ? Britain's Prime Minister?in the way of dress, pose or convention... To the man on the street Stanley Baldwin will appear "a nice-looking fellow." He might also be described as "chock full of common sense." Both inferences are correct. Mr. Baldwin comes from the "better" class of Englishmen, but he can be just as charming keeping pigs down on his Worcestershire farm as in the presence of his Majesty the King as a representative of the British people's will...
...notice Mr. Wallen says that I was busily engaged in chewing Granger Twist tobacco. I will admit that I was chewing tobacco, but it was not Granger Twist and Mr. Wallen was as near correct about most of the things that he says I said as he was about the kind of tobacco that he said I was chewing...
...ancient husbandly pretexts for effecting an egress from his home, what steps are proper for his wife to take? Not tears or smiles, not reproaches or endearments, not cries or kisses, according to Negro "Dr." Samuel Kojoe Pearce, lodged last week in a St. Louis jail. The correct procedure is to purchase one or another of the many potions, powders, charms peddled by "Dr." Pearce and most efficacious in promoting domestic happiness...
...seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship of Miss Wills...
...upright father even decided in favor of naughty Paris. He had faith in his son. Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...