Word: sic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conspiracy-this time a plot by Fascists to depose the King, murder General Pietro Badoglio, Chief of Staff and proclaim Mussolini Emperor. This fact, which comes exclusively to the correspondent of the World, is being kept a secret and, even to those who know of it {sic} its details are a deep mystery...
...members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget that Germany was the country with which Belgium was on very bad terms (sic) during and because of the War. M. Vandervelde's attitude is indicative of the new Europe based on cooperation and conciliation...
...face of grey granite. This face quivers. This grey face is the lustreless eyes [sic] of a gentlewoman whose tears must all be running inward...
...residents along the Post Roard stand on their porches, shivering in the November dawn, chatting and awaiting the Sears cortege. After it has passed, headed by the ambitious lady, they so back to bed. And by the time they have fallen asleep the parade is miles beyond. For sic transit gloria mundi, gloria pedes and gloria Eleanora...
...Luther's second wife. Glib ignorance of an elementary historical fact which affected a great human movement so profoundly as did the marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina von Bora the Protestant Reformation reflects no credit on the reputation of pretensions of a. magazine such as yours (sic.). Katharina was Luther's first and only wife. His marriage to her, being that of a former priest to a former nun, raised a fury of opposition against him and against the religious movement of which he was the leader. Although he had, repeatedly, urged his fellows in the evangelical...