Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once married and supplied with funds, Adventurer Zubkov neglected his Princess and began in Berlin a boozily epic career. He playfully but painfully tweaked the noses of tardy waiters. He smashed and exploded bottles of champagne just for the fun of dousing perfect strangers with effervescent golden rain. . . . And very often Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov roistered with from six to ten ladies of the evening until high noon...
...startled soul of the entire nation entwines itself at this moment with ever and ever more intense affection about Your Majesty. The nation's perfect discipline will continue for the glory of the dynasty and the power of the fatherland. I beg Your Majesty to accept an expression of my profound devotion...
Long before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 12th, the roads to Baldonnel were burdened with men, women, children, donkeys, cycles, motorcars. The Bremen was trundled from her hangar and poised for flight, away from a perfect dawn. Koehl and Fitzmaurice, devout Catholics, made their confessions and Father O'Riordan blessed the plane. Baron von Huenefeld, doffing his yachting cap, hung a silken flag of the old German Empire beside that of the Irish Free State. President and Mrs. William T. Cosgrave, the German Consul-General, the Chief of Staff of the Army and other officials...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
...they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude...