Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arsenic and Old Lace," that delightful story of two New England ladies and their poisoned elderberry wine, has come back to Boston, this time with the New York cast headed by Bela Lugosi. For the people who through some oversight have thus far failed to see the play, nothing can be done in this corner but give an unqualified advice to grab it while it's here...
...Great Powers may also have meant that after this war notions of racial geography would command little respect in the postwar settlements. Even more clearly they may have meant that a Danube Federation would remedy the oversight at Versailles. If so, they had discarded the larger concept of an all-European Federation, or at most had decided to postpone it until some sort of federation-of-federations might be attempted...
Your article on "Taxation" appearing in the May 24 issue contains a statement which was no doubt an oversight, but which I believe may be confusing and possibly misleading to many people who do not have adequate information on the precise provisions for withholding under the pending pay-as-you-go legislation...
...among the various countries which have enjoyed its protecting influence, in direct proportion to the number of inhabitants of the several countries which Germany has used to aid her own war industries and for other purposes. They could be used on reconstruction programs, among other things, and with proper oversight and supervision, and without their arms...
...oversight that Helene Sar-deau (Mrs. George Biddie) was not mentioned in TIME'S story. She should have been credited with her bas-reliefs, entitled Violence and Charity. One depicted a brute strangling another brute; the other, figures with outstretched hands succoring a dying comrade. But let Mr. Biddie be advised that TIME does not intentionally misquote anything. Furthermore on the rare occasions when TIME undertakes to quote a correspondent, its readers are so advised...