Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acts of true merit, and a third act of uncertain quality. Into his first two acts, he has deftly drawn characters and conditions, has advanced his story in terms of character, has well handled straightforward and honest speech. The beginning of the third act does not seem quite correct, nor in keeping with the rest of the play. The scene in which the unbearable Florrie first makes advances to George and then turns into a bull in a china shop, breaking handy glassware, regardless of Mr. Jewett's expenses when the play has finished its run, seems a discordant note...
Scars of Jealousy. It was well past mid-afternoon in Thomas H. Ince's Hollywood ranch and the visiting stockholders were thirsty for another picture. Tugging viciously at the bellpull, which, from seeing his own pictures, Mr. Ince seriously believed to be a correct as well as expensive convenience, the great man summoned Lambert Hillyer, his director...
Negro labor, the great black section of America's casual worker army of ten million, is migrating to the North. If a report issued by the Department of Agriculture is correct, the exodus of Negroes northward almost rivals the phenomenal movement of 1915-16. Our last census revealed an increase for the decade of 400,000 in the number of Southern-born Negroes living in the North. The best authorities estimate that 250,000 went North in 1915-16. It was a great silent movement, without leadership, or even self-consciousness, which caught at the South like an infectious...
...Canadian, dark, eager eyed and sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...rolled up as they massage the decks; no picture is given of enlisted men blacking a looie's boots. Deliberately false advertising, that's what it is.' " General Pershing: "I issued an order that the Army should improve its style in correspondence. Conciseness, brevity, careful wording, correct paragraphing and the personal touch-these things make the perfect letter, and the perfect letter-writer." Battling Siki: "Because I punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained...