Word: imperfectability
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There was no lack of sufficient reasons for Her Majesty's return: 1) King Ferdinand's imperfect "health" is both physical and political. A crisis both for the King as a man and for the man as a King has long been imminent (TIME, Jan. 11). 2) Despatches from Bucharest reported Queen Marie's "palace clique" to be holding its own with difficulty, since her departure, against the renewed onslaughts of the minority parties. Her Majesty is the political Generalissimo of the Crown. Having sped to Manhattan, she motored up the Hudson to Tuxedo, and rested there...
...ability of colleges to train men in the mass, they lack the necessary equipment. In consequence, universities have had to cull from the stream of applicants those best equipped for advanced work. The methods used to effect this choice, intelligence tests, photographs, entrance examinations are simply practical rules, admittedly imperfect, which give some measure of the candidates for admission...
...undergraduate critic has had no working knowledge of any college other than his own (save in exceptional cases like the report of the student committee at Dartmouth [TIME, Aug. 4, 1924], which very intelligently visited other institutions), and even of his own college the undergraduate critic has but an imperfect, close-range conception...
...Cecil's performance as Carew is somewhat imperfect; due no doubt to over-acting at precarious moments. Mr. Clive as William, although not an important role, is as usual above reproach, Alan Mowbray as Anthony Walford, is splendid, and Terrence Neill as the epigrammatic Colonial Governor is quite amusing. Miss Standing as the third and most important member of the triangle is quite good. Mr. Carnovsky as the arch-villain can have no higher compliment paid his art than to say that this member of the audience, for one, cameont of the theatre, reviling and blaspheming his Machiavellian character...
...agree with Mr. Wilson that "Rip Van Winkle" should be revived. It is an interesting adaption of Irving's folk lore classic and it has a charm and mellow homeliness which are found nowhere else with just this flavor. Despite its imperfect dramatic qualities, "Rip Van Winkle" is a delightful play with a wealth of beautiful and quaint effects--a play to be seen and a play long to be cherished in the memory