Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except indirectly; but that does not explain the clouds in Europe. The visions of suffering are short-lived. The jealousy of patriotism is enduring. A new generation kneels to receive its inheritance, and is still too unsophisticated to toss aside, the spoiled portions of it. This is a perfect scene for the cynic, in all points but one; it is too genuinely pitiful...
...children enrolled in the Settlement Kindergarten was increased by one-third over the record of a similar group the year before. We have had a baby since he was five weeks old cared for in our Day Nursery. He is now twenty months old and in almost perfect physical condition. His mother was an invalid before he was born and within the month died in the Tuberculosis Hospital...
...this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding the festivities in perfect tranquility, and if it later develops that Gloria simply despises Oriental perfume she can give it to a younger brother to use on the dog. And, just to make safety doubly sure he is planning to take six weeks vacation in Labrador beginning December 26th...
...composer had the ovation. A sturdy, middle-aged Italian, Respighi had come to the U. S. especially for the premiere. Only in Heaven, he announced after the general rehearsal, could one hope for so perfect a production as the Metropolitan's. The Metropolitan's audience tried to return the compliment, called him again and again before the curtain. For critics The Sunken Bell was commendable, if unimportant, an opera to make one pleasant evening, if scarcely half a dozen...
...over old age, death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited...