Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you be good enough to correct an item which appeared in your issue of April 2 [p. 13]? I refer to the note about Ivan Mestrovitch, the eminent Jugoslav sculptor, of whom you say that "he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes...
...cent of married people practice birth control. Let us legalize it and get away from the bootlegged devices of the corner drug store. ... I am not for free love. . . . The companionate marriage is real marriage. It will put an end to the immorality of the present day and correct the divorce evil. Young people with the fear of children removed can marry earlier. They can have children when they want them...
...purpose of Cardinal Gasquet's work is merely to correct as far as possible the errors of text which crept into St. Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible...
Recent Bibles. These preposterous interpolations have been equalled in the most recent efforts to correct the history of God's doings; acutely insensitive persons have, for example, deleted from certain chapters all mention of alcoholic liquor, substituting, for such, babbling nouns, or pallid and incoherent adjectives. More valuable and more reasonable are modern efforts to rewrite the King James Version in a prose idiom which more nearly approaches present day vernacular. Of such efforts, the best known...
...would like to know the street and number of the most famous cafes, the correct hour to appear at the Lido, the sophisticated approach to the inside of Blarritz, San Sebastian, St. Moritz, Marienbad, or Monte Carlo--in short, if you would acquire a large slice of that savoir faire which marks the experienced traveler, try PLEASURE IF POSSIBLE, by Karl K. Kitchen (Rae D. Henkle Co., New York. 1928, $2.50.) With an introduction by Will Rogers, it provides for every necessity, and supplies a passport for the gay life abroad...