Word: err
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken. With Maryland gallantry he summed up the case: Aimee was accused of immorality and, when she denied it, prosecuted. No Maryland court or jury would ever behave so caddishly to a lady, Mencken said, and with heavy irony: "Unless I err grievously, our Heavenly Father is with...
...book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan...
...Strad. Slonimsky, who was born in St. Petersburg on April 27, 1894 (according to unchecked information), does his sleuthing from a book-lined study on Boston's Beacon Street. He attributes his success as a detective to his refusal to trust authorities. But even Slonimsky can err. He "feels disgraced" by the fact that he reprinted the story that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains another error...
...trouble, of course, is that many people, uninformed of the latest of many recent changes, telephone the old number. Such is human frailty that men too often err; and such is University wisdom that a recorded announcement--spoken incidentally by a seductive female voice--directs the dialer to the correct number...
...general magnitude of $8 billion-$10 billion, according to present tentative estimates." But Washington skeptics see more realism in the red-ink estimate issued by the staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: a dizzying $11.1 billion. And even the Joint Committee's forecast may err on the cheerful side. It assumes...