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...employed in TIME only where the untitled surname appears without the Christian name. Sic: "C. Bascom Slemp"; but "Mr. Slemp...
Towards Swampscott rushed Lucius J. M. Malnin [sic], Federal Judge of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, purchased by the U. S. from Denmark in 1917). Judge Lucius had a tale of "maladministration of the Virgin Isles" by "seven U. S. governors, all navy officers, in seven years," to unfold to President Coolidge. He was told by Secretary Sanders, at Lynn, to hold his peace until the President should return to Washington. Then and there an interview will be accorded...
...orthography of a foreign tongue, had slipped once or twice in spelling. So, to drum up interest in the articles they were about to publish, to make a better profit from the poor Queen's efforts to earn a little money, they published her letter pointing out mistakes-sic...
...have already often expressed my great liking and admiration for America and its people. . . . I simpathise (sic) with their sincerity. . . . The Old and New Wrd (World) can learn much from each other mutually. . ; . Exchange of thought is a great richness we can develope (sic) on both sides...
...editors of The Crimson, typifying the austerity and the dignity that supposedly enwraps the Harvard man, apathetically remarks (sic) in an editorial that the lack of a mascot is cause for satisfaction rather than for regret. In part it says: "While other colleges were adopting an entire menagerie of appropriate animals, Harvard remained aloof and chaste, refusing parentage of even so mild a nature. Yale became big brother to a bull pup: Princeton mothered a tiger; but Harvard was the father only to a gentle wish that some day this foolishness might cease...