Word: imperfectability
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...book of reminiscences, Past Imperfect (Doubleday, Doran; $3), broadcasting Actress Ilka Chase cut loose from the Nice Nellyism required by radio, let her pen run on without inhibitions. Sample (of her youthful meeting with Novelist George Moore): "Moore was a spindly-legged, pot-bellied, bejowled little man, and he unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose...
...wartime public sentiment can be stirred and public thinking informed only by something unfavorably known as "propaganda," the program was propaganda. Yet its theatrics, its sentimentality, its moments of bad taste were not products of war but of imperfect art. It did not descend to cheap and spurious jingoism. And it told a truth in telling, out of the mouths of the imagined People, why and when the Bill of Rights was written, what it says, and what it means as an American Charter promising no deprivation of life or property except by due process of law-a conception notably...
...article in TIME magazine about the President of Chile may have been based on imperfect information and erred otherwise. . . . But a 'disgusting lie' is an accusation of outright, deliberate falsehood. TIME hardly needs any defense from such an accusation even though it issues from the White House."-Boston Herald...
Students who saw Mr. Kittredge only in the lecture room, and especially in large courses, has a very imperfect knowledge of the nature of the man. His Olympian front and magisterial manner positively terrified some of his hearers. He was not a man, it seemed to take liberties with, and he had, in fact, a sense of personal dignity which was perhaps commoner in an earlier generation...
...Chicago's American Harmonica Corp. handed the problem to their reed experts. Foreign reeds were tone-tested by hand. Lacking skilled labor for that job, the experts invented a machine which not only tests U. S. reeds for tone but also cuts them to size and rejects imperfect strips...