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Word: flawless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there is no need to tell you this. You could never appreciate it. Permit me, with my sincerest congratulations upon an examination flawless in its inscrutability, to remain yours, etc., (not sent...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

That unsavory gentleman, irate because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Quetzal | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...DOCTOR'S DILEMMA-Flawless reincarnation of Bernard Shaw's early cartoon of London doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Even Florence is not wholly peaceful in her glory, for there bites at her consciousness of superiority a rumor, well founded but unwelcome on Manhattan playgrounds, that a girl from Cincinnati once bounced and snatched her way through 40 flawless games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jacks | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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