Word: sic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surgeons last week at Montreal: "It is the spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
...tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe that Man sprung from a nobler source than the jungle [sic]. It was Marie Corelli, was it not, or was it Mrs. Eddy, or another watchful observer of the times, who first suspected that man was weary of walking upright and looking at the stars ; and judging from the doings of experimenting scientists, this weariness is leading man into strange...
Agronomic item from Club-Fellow (reputation monger of the Town Topics school) : "The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, has his family established for the summer at Southampton,* L. I., the first time he or she have [sic] ever deigned to take on a fashionable resort. We are waiting to see how far his official position gets the Jardines into the social life at Southampton...
Needless to say there is no pretense to seriousness. Mr. Dix, as Yale quarterback Bill Dexter, runs riot in the Bowl, then in the exclusive (sic) Prado Night Club, gets jailed, escapes, and elopes to avoid capture. That in brief is the plot, but it is the small bits of acting and the rather subtle humor that makes this movie worthwhile and really entertaining...
...interest and the buzzing and the clamor some Eastern lyceum bureau offered Mr. Burbank $120,000 for a year's lecturing about his agnostic [sic] views on religion. He almost snarled at the insulting proffer, "I am not in this for the money...