Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victoria's Granddaughter. Parisians rubbed their eyes once more at Queen Marie, unquestionably the most modish of the late Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Queen Marie, the daughter of Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, never seemed more the perfect type of Germano-British womanhood than when she greeted with a radiant smile General Lasson, the military aide of President Doumergue who welcomed her to Paris and presented an armful of roses...
...Permit me to express to you my great appreciation for your courtesy in showing me the remains of the mastodon which you are recovering from the old swamp near Johnstown. The specimen is an unusually perfect and complete skeleton of this interesting, extinct form of life. The individual was an adult in the prime of life, full grown, but not aged and decrepit. Presumably it was bogged down in the swamp and died there...
...gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...Henry Stetson, mother of two debutante daughters, had no golfing style, but merely an impertinent putter. Mrs. Wright Goss, ten years ago the "perfect girl" of Vassar, had exuberant drives, but a nervous, jabbing putter. Mrs. Stetson defeated Mrs. Goss at the Merion Cricket Club, thereby winning the woman's national golf championship. Glenna Collett, the defending champion, had previously been eliminated...
...running attacks, and Yale was forced to resort to forward passes and an occasional end run to gain ground. Two long passes, Kline to Bunnell, gave Yale her only first half score. Noble failed to kick the goal; and the six point lead was too slim for the perfect peace of the Blue supporters...