Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final happiness of all concerned was only qualified by the symbolic significance of a picture bequeathed by a dying Forsyte. It was a Chinese work, depicting a "large whitish sidelong monkey, holding the rind of a squeezed fruit in its outstretched paw." The picture is commented on as a perfect allegory. "Eat the fruits of life, scatter the rinds, and get copped doing it," says one of its observers; ... a monkey's eyes are the human tragedy incarnate...
...today is clear it will be the sixth successive Saturday throughout this fall on which the team has had perfect weather...
...Perfect weather conditions permitted a crowd of 77,000 to enjoy the fray to the utmost. Every seat in the Bowl was occupied when the game got under way. The Cadets, 1200 in number, gave their customary drill exhibition on the field shortly before the contest began. During the intermission between the halves an Army bugler sounded "taps" in memory of Percy Haughton while three Yale cheer leaders and three West Pointers stood at attention with flags lowered and the spectators looked on with heads bared...
PAULUS Fy-Helene Mullins and Marie Gallegher-McBride ($2.00). Ronald Firbank and Daisy Ashford might well have collaborated to produce this picture of the perfect esthete in his home. Paulus was a teacher of French, a student of the graces. With his cat, the sympathetic Cez, he dwelt in a little gem of an apartment, surrounded by precious bibelots. Tragedy came into his delicately ordered life with the death of Cez and the suicide of Mimi, whom he knew only through her letters, but whom he did not have to know in order to love. Others of his loves were...
...surprising that in so many instances the most promising candidates have been ignored. The turtle is not particularly handsome, but he is unequalled as the symbol of a perfect defence. His speed too, if Aesop is to be believed, is far from negligible. From the viewpoint of the perfect attack the skunk is the only candidate in the field. The times cry out, however, for an animal versed in all the methods of warfare. Which fits the need more satisfactorily than the porcupine? His footwork may not be so flashy as that of some, but he has a finesse...