Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a Negro officer of the U. S. Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One was disqualified for imperfect eyesight, one because of age (limits are 16-20), one flunked the entrance exams. Negro Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell who defeated Mr. De Priest in 1934 had better luck. Year ago he appointed James Lee Johnson Jr., who got into the Naval Academy, lasted one semester, was then flunked...
...cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect to give the child eyelashes and blinkable lids by fastening pieces of her eyebrows to the edges of her present, imperfect lids. Next and last step will be the insertion of a little glass eye with a blue iris...
...worth subsidizing, and to arrange for the building of enough up-to-date ships by the operators so that they will have a chance to compete successfully for trade on those routes. All this had to be done under an awkwardly framed law, a law so imperfect that many .people believed it unworkable...
...Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes...
...agitating"). Though he has recanted the barricades, he is still vaguely Marxian, vaguely Trotskyite, mostly ''Musteite"- as other sectarian radicals call his followers of the American Workers' Party. Preacher Muste now has enough taste for organized religion to say: ''The Church, weak and imperfect as it may be, exists, and it seems to me that after the example of Jesus, we have to take our place within it and work from that point...