Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some esteemed even the duty of Congressmen to secure, each for his constituency, the finest, fattest, most expensive public building that he could wheedle out of his colleagues and the Federal fisc. So, in a spirit of sympathetic cooperation, Congressmen would get together, each handing the other a perfect plum of a public edifice. The press of those parts of the country where the plums did not fall called this "log-rolling," called it "pork...
...Next day, he did an 80 to Hagen's 75, began the fourth round 16 down. He lost the first hole, lay dormie, won the second with a par 3 to Hagen's 4. The third hole is long. Walker's drive, his brassie, were perfect. He laid his hand on a light mashie, cast a wary eye at the pit of tawny sand that gaped at the right of the green. If this shot were perfect, if every shot he made that afternoon were incredibly good, he might be almost even with Hagen before defeat stopped...
...method affords unequaled opportunities for comment and satire on a most everything from the manufacture of widgets to the latest place to go for a supper dance. Each part is as nearly perfect as it can be, while the bitter irony that runs through the whole fantastle affair never lets you forget that the play and its authors are dead in earnest...
...helpful and stimulating as any college course. It is certainly as valuable as a course in composition for the man who is inclined to carelessness in his writing. Then it gives the rare opportunity of self-expression. The training which a candidate receives is suited primarily to help him perfect his own style. Men who make the editorial board are eligible for the position of editorial chairman, one which allows them to play an unusually strong part in the moulding and interpreting of college opinion. Of competitions open to Juniors, the CRIMSON editorial competition is by far the most attractive...
...Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense. The editor of The American Mercury is stalwart, hearty, genial, lovable. He is so entirely forthright that one is immediately impressed with the fact that he is at heart a Puritan. He exudes stern morality. He is obviously a good mixer and not prejudiced...