Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no doubt but that items of news in the article are substantially correct, but your reference to "Jellybeans" is all wrong, and especially your explanation in the note. You define a jellybean as a heap this "Southern small opprobrium town upon the loafer." Why heap this opprobrium upon the South? We are as loyal to your publication as any portion of the country. Then again, why refer to a jellybean as a loafer? A jellybean is not necessarily a loafer, although he may be one. A jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species...
...tale to this effect was telegraphed throughout the land. Next day, Representative Sinnott, of Oregon said the tale was correct except that Correspondent Brown had nothing to do with it. He, Sinnott, had managed the whole joke...
...liked girls, but as friendly and intellectual companions. Said his sister: "He used to correct their grammar when they conversed, and gravely lecture them upon the folly of wearing stays. . . . No village belle ever liked to own that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief...
...office-seekers. It better safeguards majority rule because the majority on any question is made up of aggregated minorities and all considerable minorities must be represented if the majorities to which they belong are to have their rightful control. It also gives better assurance that decisions will rest upon correct information and open minded discussions...
...Manhattan, Professor-Critic Brander Matthews of Columbia University, aged 75, for 25 years an apostle of correct speech, was stricken dumb by thrombosis (bloodclot) on his brain...