Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed to say to you that I do greatly regret that you . . . May I state also that you are unfortunately in error with regard to there having been no evening prayer at St. Mark's on March 23. In point of fact, evening prayer was said, as announced beforehand...
...through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...
...most pretentious and in many ways the funniest burlesque is "The True Story of the Herrin Massacre" as recounted by Bruce Blithers. This blithe gentleman attributes the disaster to an error of philology...
Miss Williams, as Madame Pernelle, gave an interesting interpretation of the elderly Lady whose opinions, once formed, are not to be changed by trifles, and who when convinced of her error is completely overcome, as much by having been mistaken in her judgment as by the actual misfortune which has fallen upon...
...their natural lives, he eliminates all possibility of pardon or ultimate release. It might be urged that a murderer might very well reform with the passage of time, but in the general run of cases, the risk to the rest of the population which a premature release or an error in judgment would entail, seems to justify at least permanent confinement--where the present penalty is usually death...