Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Packard '20 in the coaching of the play, the Club obtained the assistance of M J. Bon de Sousa 1G a graduate of New College Oxford, who is directing the voice inflection of some of the character parts in a play of this sort, the correct pronunciation of the English dialects is one of the fine, points of the production and it is of the inflection that de Sousa is to be the coach...
Equally positive was Mr. Carlisle in his refutation of the Governor's statement that a Buffalo consumer would be charged $7.90 for what a Niagara Falls consumer could get for a paltry $5.53. "I hope you will check and correct these errors," said Mr. Carlisle, then adding, with humor perhaps gained when he practiced law in northern New York, "The rates are on file with the Public Service Commission in Albany and can be checked, of course...
Newsstand clients wondered if "Bobby Jones on Golf," published by a subsidiary of Macfadden Publications Inc., was really written by Golfer Robert Tyre Jones himself. The manual, 112 pages long, contained more or less routine articles on the proper way to handle various clubs, how to correct common faults, "Tips for the Nervous Golfer," plentiful pictures (including Golfer Jones when young), a large volume of advertising. Investigation revealed that Golfer Jones had not employed a ghost, that he had originally sold the articles to Bell Features Syndicate, having patiently scrawled out his copy over weekends, to meet the regulation...
...relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably have difficulty in finding a vacant seat...
...hope that you will correct this misstatement out of fairness to all concerned. There are many Jews in our organization and I have only the highest regard for them and for all other denominations and religions...