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...human and to me a recent error is most embarrassing. On p. 24 in TIME, Jan. 21 I quote from the article captioned, "Beautiful Boxes"-"Before the contest Mr. Britt's mailbox was propped on a fence rail between tin signs advertising Coca-Cola and a tonic known as DR. PEPPER ('Good for Life...
...elderly and distinguished British actor, eager to be knighted by his King, the business of impersonating heroes in his country's history is eminently sound. The only error made by George Arliss was in choosing two who performed on the same world stage about the same time. In The House of Rothschild (in which Wellington was impersonated by C. Aubrey Smith), Actor Arliss suggested to cinema audiences that Waterloo was a minor crisis in the affairs of a Jewish financier. In The Iron Duke, though Rothschild does not appear at all, Arliss' invariable mannerisms are so reminiscent that...
...making up this pamphlet it serious error was made in the sequence of the pages. To read the text as it was written it is necessary to observe the following order: Pages 3-36 are correct as they stand; from page 36 go to 42; read first on this page the section which is upside down; read the rest of the page; read pages 43-45, go back to page 41; read page 41; from page 41 go back to page 37; read from page...
Furthermore, the Oil Code, undisturbed by the Supreme Court's decision, was still in force. That code was supposed to outlaw hot oil but, through an "error" which was not discovered for nearly a year, the pertinent section was missing from certified official copies...
...Townsend's error lies in forgetting the simple truth that someone must produce the wealth which is consumed by the nonproducers, be they infants, old people, sick people, the unemployed, the idle rich, or the criminal classes. If Dr. Townsend's medicine were a good remedy, the more people the country could find to support in idleness the better off it would...