Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goat? Where there are "villains," there is likely to be a "goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer whose opinion Dr. Work sought in renewing Sinclair's lease. Dr. Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from...
Trusting you will rectify this unfortunate error. Sincerely, A. Miller...
...appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism. Besides violating an evasive thing called "good taste", it is a fundamental error in showmanship, in which some one higher up, not the member, is blameworthy...
More likely his wife whispered, and he made his mistake common to all young husbands, of believing her. Distance being the one requirement of all those who make their living by criticizing this busy republic, it is easy to see how one might fall into the error of looking for wisdom where they live, move and have their being...
...indeed, a sad commentary on politics and higher education if the evidence of a single error in the list of members of an undergraduate political club must immediately lead to unsubstantial charges of forgery, padding its lists, and general corruption. The Hoover-for-President Club admits that the signature in question was not genuine; but its presence is known to be the result of a curious type of practical joke from an independent source, combined with carelessness on the part of one of our workers, whose membership sheet was not turned in until after the charges had appeared...