Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czechoslovak glass makers whose low prices have long given competitors World headaches announced last week that the North Bohemian Works have perfected "glass razor blades, supple and sharp as steel." A glass razor blade, the Czechoslovaks boasted, achieves at last the ideal toward which all safety razor makers have been striving: It positively cannot be re-sharpened...
...more washable uniforms, a roster of new players,, a manager other than his wary friend and onetime roommate Bucky Harris. The prospect of owning football and baseball teams in the same city last week caused Mr. Marshall to discourse to reporters on one of his favorite dreams, the ideal sports stadium. This, planned for Boston in the near future, will be glass-enclosed, with movable bleachers and a press box on a monorail to follow the plays in football...
Last week California glared out again in the news as the favorite stamping ground of obscure young scientists who bemuse the nation by bringing "dead" animals back to life. Of all places in the world, Hollywood seemed the ideal spot for the spectacular experiments conducted for the past fortnight by young Dr. Ralph Stanley Willard...
Promptly Artist Katz retorted: "I would sooner risk my reputation as an honest artist than change that mural. The young generation demands facts and asks the artist not to flatter but to tell of life as it is. In that mural I expressed an ideal honestly and with all the powers of my background and training, and without any frivolity or monkey business...
Irish Policeman. Joe Kennedy's appointment was more than a reward for contributions to Democratic campaign funds and lesser political favors. The President was convinced that the shrewd, genial, red-headed Boston Irishman would make an ideal policeman for the securities business. Like any good Irish policeman, he would be kind where kindness was called for, harsh where harshness was needed. As to his Wall Street record, Joe Kennedy would get a lusty laugh out of catching one of his old friends off the reservation, gaily clap him in jail if he possibly could...