Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, Blease, unless awed to silence and helplessness by the traditions and dignity of the Senate, would be a continuing scream, a clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...
...stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners, which is a mark of the noblest American womanhood." Farmington, whose course is indefi- nite in length and character, has a reputation for distinction of dress and deportment. It caters to "the finer families." Its product is rather the perfect lady than the trained mind. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter Keep are in charge...
...these many years. Yet the manufacturers contend that thereby is their product the more easily and widely marketed. Therefore, Lily of the Dust. Which simply goes again to prove that the cheaper the materials involved in the manufacture of an article, the greater the profit. Pola Negri gives a perfect performance of Pola Negri. But as Sudermann's Lilly Czepanek (tall, fair and willowy), old friends of the book will disagree with her. Yet for the millions who want Pola Negri, it is to be said that she contributes one of the finest performances she has given since...
...Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer...
...finals, Miriam, griped (literally) beyond endurance by ptomaine poisoning, was no match for Edith, faded away before perfect golf...