Word: imperfectability
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...faith, not of reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers to furnish a working code of government, but which, being framed in an emergency one hundred and fifty years ago, as the Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true that permitting the President to exercise discretionary tariff powers is equivalent to handing him some of the taxing power, as Senator Borah avers, this does not mean...
...courage to stand by the credo which brought it into power, or it has not. It either desires to effect changes which will at least mitigate, if not avoid catastrophes such as that from which we are emerging, or it does not. Though N. R. A. is imperfect, it at least furnished a step in the direction of a better-organized society, wherein wealth might be more equitably distributed, and no man beaten before the starts. To abandon that goal is to forsake an ideal that gave promise of realization and to betray the trust of the American people...
...three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...
...silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia no ladies were better dressed than those from Moscow, though naturally their dancing was imperfect...
...reporter was reconverted to Christian hope. Leaving the theatre, he overheard Miss Ida May Sparrow, who plays the leading feminine role. She complained to the manager concerning the imperfect acoustics of the stage. (Mr. Dixon, the reporter then recalled, was afflicted at the time with a hoarse throat...