Word: error
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...
...final injustice, TIME quotes one critic as saying the paper upon which they are printed is cheap-an error of fact...
...number of accidents charged to 'pilot error' is by no means an index to the number of errors committed. . . It is only in the mountainous regions where the clouds have solid cores [i.e., peaks against which an airplane can smash] that the errors are brought to public attention...
...should be very much interested to learn the source of information used by you in the Jan. 10 issue of TIME, for we feel that there is a grave error somewhere. You said that Mr. C. D. White, our Mayor, once remarked that only "cheapskates" come to Atlantic City. Our Mayor is entirely too much of a gentleman to refer to any convention as a group of "cheapskates," and most certainly no person in this city in his right mind would so deliberately offend any organization...
...Greatest Show on Earth are its ingenious costumes, handsome production, and the acting of Edgar Stehli as Slimy, the serpent. As he slithers among the bears and elephants, hissing in Cockney, inciting Leo the Lion (Anthony Ross) to murder the Keeper, Actor Stehli commits only one zoological error. He wickedly nickers his tongue to show malice. Real snakes, without malice, flicker their tongues to smell...