Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviewer of the New York Sun correctly pointed out that the spelling "liqueris" was wrong: it should have been "loqueris." It was, of course, a typographical error, as my Mss. had the "o." I corrected it in a later edition...
...come in answer to a letter from one of their officers, assuring the President that they had been incorrectly reported in the Press as opposed to his Neutrality Proclamation. Up sat the members in their chairs, however, for after saying he was glad that the report had been an error the President continued...
...Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public to admit that I have been in error. . . . Like a grotesque Colossus, this Administration stands astride the two extremities of social error...
This blunder is even more significant as one of a series. With the officious and unsympathetic air of a pompous egotist, he has constantly terrorized undergraduates suspected of misdemeanors, when human treatment might have elicited accurate information and prevented humiliation and error. We are forced to conclude that Colonel Apted's tenure of office has been detrimental to the best interests of the College and recommend his immediate dismissal on grounds of incompetence...
Greeted on his arrival by the entire Faculty and a committee of debutantes, Dr. Huey's distrait air caused a sensation, and in the scramble many people were injured. The error was soon discovered, and balked of his future on the gridiron, the venerable Doctor matriculated in the College and after engaging rooms at 14 Plympton Street, entered upon the intricacies of acquiring a Western education...