Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sirs: Will TIME kindly report the greatest flight- as to number in air at one time-of airplanes on record? See TIME, p. 12, issue of May 19, third column, last sentence: "Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from...
...friendly enemies, our verbal tilts have not prevented my becoming one of those to whom he can come, where he will meet neither beatification, canonization nor misunderstanding. Yesterday he came for an ave et vale, and when I solemnly assured him that TIME had him beatified, he registered the correct screen despair. Then he protested wistfully: "Can't they accept me for what I am? Just a man, with these clothes and a few others?" That he will pass palatial, welcoming mansions for an hour with a friend years older than himself in a little redwood cabin near...
This adder sting touched off Sir Austen Chamberlain, be-monocled, correct and supremely supercilious Peace Prizeman (1926), whilom British Foreign Minister. Wagging a bony forefinger at the Chancellor he cried in shocked protest: "That remark in its tone and temper stands alone in the records of the House! The Right Honorable Gentleman is always ready to impute motives of such a character to the opposition and he has caused 300 gentlemen to sit up all night, not to do business, but for his own satisfaction...
Bears, like most wild animals, may be frightened away by a noise. Bears will fight only when they think they are cornered. Correct procedure for an unarmed man grounded by an unwounded bear is to lie still. The bear will cuff and bite only as ong as his victim resists. Alaskans tell the story of a woman, attacked by a bear, who fainted, received not a scratch...
...reply President-elect Prestes, perfectly in the Latin tradition, showed how to employ the raging breast, the flowery metaphor and the torrential expletive while remaining perfectly correct and sleek: "Pan-Americanism, fruit of an ambitious dream! . . . one which only in idealism could be called excessive . . . Pan-Americanism . . . fought against the obstacles which were strewn in its way, triumphed over them even as faith and beauty must always triumph...