Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slogans with a human element have always been sought by office-seekers as a very necessary factor in their campaigns. The famous motto of the Democratic party in the recent Senatorial race in Massachusetts, "Dis-Lodge", may be recalled as a perfect example of this. But no other President has ever been able to boast that his birthday, was on July 4, and this will undoubtedly turn out a valuable asset when the votes are counted next November...
...Jockeys. Black Gold was ridden by J.D. Mooney, New Orleans boy. Mooney, hitherto little known, rode a perfect race. He got his mount out of a bad "pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...
...Brown second-baseman. Howard came through with his usual triple, crossing the plate himself a moment later, on Ullman's single. Two errors and two hits added two more tallies to the Crimson score and the batfest ended only when Mayble, the Proidence right-fielder, made a perfect throw to home catching Duchin by a close margin...
...went on to explain a plan whereby through sport competitions between New and Old England, the healthy influence could be extended to the working man. "It may not be a perfect cure," he said, "but if you can show me a better 'ole, I'll go with you to live...