Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costello: "Congratulations. It went over perfect. When I tell you something is in the bag, you can rest assured...
Against such seasoned competitors you can't make any mistakes, and Henry's game is not yet perfect. "But give him a little more time and he'll be able to beat any player in Massachusetts," says Barnaby...
Circumstantial. In Arlington, Va., Robert L. Thomas was acquitted of a numbers writing charge when he came up with the perfect defense: he couldn't write...
Jean Arp is a sculptor who hates almost all sculpture except his own. "Especially," he once complained, "these naked men, women & children in stone or bronze . . . who untiringly dance, chase butterflies, shoot arrows, hold out apples, blow the flute, are the perfect expression of a mad world. These mad figures must no longer sully nature...
...rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew. Several take their titles, and the flavor of their lyrical development, from the play's Elizabethan verse. The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson solemnly declared that I Hate Men is "the perfect musical sublimation of Shakespeare's evil-tempered Kate...