Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...
...quicker and the Forecast pulse raced faster. Suffice to say, I was in love. But when I pressed my suit, she (her name shall not be handled about in the public press) said with a sigh, "I'm afraid we could never get along, Joe. You're so darned perfect." That's the sort of thing I've had to contend with all my life. But did I give...
...suggestion of the eventual sharing of the presidential responsibility among a small group only lacks the assurance that such a group would work better together, that they would accomplish more, and, at least the President of Harvard University would agree that such an establishment was an approach to the perfect in university administration. Dr. Kirkpatrick can only hope for such cooperation. Could he promise that the faculty, now striding the twin steeds of scholarship and teaching with what grace is possible, would be even beter poised with the third steed of university administration added--then his faculty government might appear...
Jacob Islamoff knew that this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...