Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondence variety of learning, have already hinted that the course in naval science about to be inaugurated at Harvard, is as repulsive (as it is unnecessary. The one sees learning hitched to the anachronistic chariot of war: the other visions an even more despicable pantomime. Neither is exactly correct...
...second time within a few months you refer to the esteemed wife of Ignace Jan Paderewski as Mme. Paderewski" (TIME, May 24, MUSIC). Permit me to suggest that "Mme. Paderewska" is the correct form- a title, by the way, which Dame Nellie Melba declared, in her autobiography, Melodies and Memories (TIME, April 26, BOOKS) would have been acceptable to herself, had it ever been offered...
...audience which warmly greeted the début of a contralto in Minneapolis were many sharp- seeing critics of pugilism. They were not always sure of the correct moment to applaud, but when they got the "tip" from others, they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...
G.LOWES DICKINSON is the author of many books, most of which deal with politics and war. His publisher calls him a "great historian": it would perhaps be more correct to term him a great publicist, since the purpose of his writing is not merely to state facts, but also to develop these facts as illustrations of a particular theory. To those who have read his little volume entitled "A Modern Symposium," no introduction will be necessary. The same charm of style, the same aptness and simplicity of expression are here applied to historical data...
...facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct use of the word. And he was always interesting. I do not know a man who could be so absorbingly interesting in the explanation as to the use of a single word...