Word: sic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next, the family endured a period of trial by water. Six times he was hauled out of the neighboring creek, "in a substantially drown [sic] condition." Mother remained calm. In the manner of Tom's Aunt Polly, she reflected: "People who are born to be hanged are safe in the water...
Chambers continued: "It was as if a loathsome interloper (myself) had climbed like a thief into one of those beautiful old brick-welled Baltimore gardens or into Harvard yard italics are Chambers (Marbury is a Harvard Overseer) (sic) and there perpetrated a disgusting outrage by making a monstrous charge against Alger Hiss--a charge which was automatically monstrous not only be-because it touched a friend but because it let the excluded world peep inquisitively over Marbury's cherished walls...
...filthiest pigs sty is a palace to the filthy houses in this dirty stinking City [Lisbon] ... In the middle of the day the sunny sides of the streets swarms with men and women picking the vermin from their bodies, and it is no uncommon sight to see two respectively [sic] dressed persons meet and do a friendly office for each other by picking a few crawlers from each others persons...
...Sic Transit & All That...
...assassinated at Sarajevo. He was Charles's brother, right enough, but both were nephews of Francis Ferdinand and sons of the heir's younger brother, Otto Francis Joseph. Francis Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie Hohenberg was morganatic, and their children had no claim to the throne. Sic transit . . . but not that fast...