Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corbett is still the same old Jim, tall, well-tailored and wearing the same impenetrable face. He forms a perfect foil for the antics of his partner, his eloquent speech on the eighteenth amendment being completely lost in the gales of merriment aroused by the contortions of Van, as the latter attempts to tell his "red" joke...
...University rifle team won a victory over the University of Maine Saturday, by a score of 479 to 466 out of a possible 500. E. G. Lund '23 was the high scorer for the University, failing by one point only to hand in a perfect card. Individual scores for the University, of whom only the first five placed in the score of the match, were as follows...
...last Monday night at the Colonial, Ed Wynn, supported by an able cast, gave his "Carnival", a two-act, thirteen scene entertainment. As Raymond Hitchcock was the centre of his "Hitchy-koo", so Ed Wynn is the center of his Carnival. In him, his self-styled "entertainment" has a "Perfect Fool" with spontaniety, cleverness and humor. In explaining the coming scenes, Mr. Wynn gives his ideas to the audience very well but surprises them by following with scenes entirely extraneous to the outlined plot...
...gulled by such service; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white funniest, he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence...
...first period, which ended in a draw, was a battle to the death between Holmes and Wylde, playing at the cage for the B. A. A. The former, employing at various moments, feet, hands, legs, body and stick, was the butt of a perfect shower of shots, while Wylde, hammered almost as unceasingly by the University skaters, was bombarded, and driven out of position a dozen times, though succeeding in covering up on each occasion...