Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School was removed to Boston, and Holden was used for Science lectures, and Dr. Warren's anatomy course held each Spring. Four years later, the old windows were cut down as we now see them, to give more light to the lower floor, and the present incorrect and unpleasant sash added...
...telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice would have brought prompt information that no decision had been reached." Put in Associate Justice Preston: "It would appear you were looking for a scoop and were afraid to investigate because you might find out it was incorrect. . . . You don't tell us where you got this information. It looks as if you would rather take your medicine than tell us." Two days later the Chronicle took its medicine-$500 fine for the newspaper, $250 each for Editors Rowell & Chandler. But on the day after that...
...puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded to give that department a thoroughgoing tongue-lashing in public. When he found that his British discovery, Henry Wilcoxon, was losing 4 lb. a day carrying...
...your issue of July 23 and also in a previous issue I notice that you referred to George F. Temple, father of Movie Actress Shirley Temple, as being manager of this bank's Santa Monica office. This is incorrect. Mr. Temple lives at Santa Monica but is in charge of California Bank's office at Washington Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, a district in which all the major motion picture companies maintain distributing offices. California Bank is one of the large local metropolitan banks with 55 offices in Los Angeles city and county, the Santa Monica office being...
...German Propaganda Bureau." Mr. Barton sent his attorney around to see Mr. Untermyer and last week quick-spoken Mr. Untermyer was down on his knees with a full apology, a complete retraction. "Remarks of that kind," he wrote Mr. Barton, "travel so fast that when they are incorrect it is almost impossible to catch up with them, but if you feel there is anything else you would like to have me do, I shall be more than pleased to comply with your request, in common justice to you and myself...