Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipment is Perfect...
...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...
Proadhurst, W. 44th, Broadway-- A comedy of the back-stage life of the night club: Lee Tracy plays the part of the self-made "hoofer" who worships his maker. Eloise Stream, in one of the minor parts, gives an almost perfect performance...
...business and professional men. It is their avocation, their hobby, their dream Comparatively only a handful among the four thousand members of the Club, these few men of two generations, largely with the labor of their own hands, have made it possible to traverse the White Mountains with nearly perfect safety, and with the maximum of pleasure, ease, and comfort Cui bono? "For why?" What is the charm, or spell what attraction have they found in this work to satisfy the craving of a normal present day man for an adequate outside interest, sport, or hobby, and make them dream...
...reading will be held in the Main Dining Room of the Union. The subject of Professor Copeland's reading will be "Old Favorites and New," and will contain selections from the works of such writers as Thackeray, Kipling, Robert Benchley '12, and Donald Ogden Stewart, the author of "Perfect Behavior...