Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honolulu, one George P. Mossman made a ukulele that can be heard a half a mile away. Ukuleleman Mossman once worked for fifteen years to make a perfect violin, gave it up finally on the grounds that the violin was not a local instrument. His ukuleles since, have earned him the title of "Hawaiian Strad...
...less than fifty votes by other dark-horse Senators. First man in the field to declare himself for his party's nomination, spokesman of a large section of the Middle West, regular of regulars, and despite this fact the farmer's friend, fashioned by Heaven's hand as the perfect politician--this is Curtis of Kansas...
...Ford, who has long been held up by the Bolsheviks as the perfect example of the American capitalist and exploiter of labor, is to be permitted to practice his nefarious work in the midst of a socialistic regime, it will be difficult for the Russians to deny much longer that Socialism is not entirely practical. Already the peasants have been granted practical ownership of their farms and produce, and now that its principles are to be abandoned in the factories as well, little remains but a few catchwords of Karl Marx and a rapidly fading shadow of that Utopia...
...decades ago an interest in music was regarded as almost effeminate in American men. Europe, especially Germany and Italy, honored the musician above most artists, and reverence and love of this art produced whole races of instrumentalists and singers. But in America the perfect type of sissy was conceived as a long-haired esthete carrying a violin. For some reason good music was not native to this soil, and long years of labor by a few who appreciated it have been needed to rouse the nation from its apathy. America still is far from being musically cultivated...
...London show an official of the British Broadcasting Company tut-tutted over the troubles of George V, with radio interference and promised His Majesty perfect reception with a new type of set. Meanwhile Queen Mary had strolled off to a booth where "Nosey Parkers" were for sale. When an attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...