Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Checked over his Christmas-tree business on his 1,077 Hyde Park acres; selected especially perfect pines for Christmas gifts; sent 500 to the market...
...stand went a score of witnesses: Mrs. Lela Wyatt, who divorced the classroom Casanova in 1936 after finding him "more times than she could count" with Mary Jo; Thelma Powell, buxom waitress, once the object of his affections; his sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him a perfect alibi: that he was 250 miles from the explosion scene at the time. But careful detective work placed his car near the Miller house that night; established his purchase of a case of dynamite in March 1938 in Shreveport, La.; proved by dust analysis that dynamite had been carried...
...Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick's choice of the little-known English actress to be the Southern belle. Whether she spoke letter-perfect middle high Georgian, few people outside middle...
...often reprinted this editorial, and other papers have been pleased to copy. While Virginia O'Hanlon grew to middle age in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, at Columbia University's School of Journalism the Santa Claus editorial was held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica...
...Most perfect tribute to Mrs. Sullivan's career was the sale itself. Total sum fetched by the 202 items: $148,730. Each noteworthy picture that passed across the velvet-draped stage brought a rustle of admiration. Rustles were frequent...