Word: sic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself. The battle of the Post and Rocky Mountain News...
...have your telegram. . . . I am deeply grateful. . . . I shall labor as I have labored to meet the effects of the world-wide storm which has devastated us with trials and sufferings unequaled in but few [sic] of our history. . . . Beyond platforms and measures lies that sacred realm of ideals, of hopes, of aspirations, those things of the spirit which make the greatness and the soul of the nation. These are our objectives and with unceasing effort, with courage and faith in Almighty God, they will be attained...
Vocational Counseling (sic) and Organization...
...than an interrogation mark. In fact, he pushes him into a rear seat with so ungentlemanly a shove that it almost becomes a punch below the belt. It was not very long ago, was it, that the hall-mark of the sophisticated undergraduate was an intimate acquaintance with "Jurgen"? Sic transit...
...course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide...