Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the evidence is not yet complete, it seems safe to conclude that Mr. Planalp exaggerated; that in each of the 110 millions of people in the U. S., there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome...
...near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual spring prevails and beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side. These gentlemen do not write with...
...opinion you have been complimented in the Printers' Ink series of advertisements by an almost perfect reproduction of your vein and phraseology...
...room to tell his secretary, found her tittering timorously and avoiding his look. Again he looked at his paper. Here was his name in print! What had he done? Dastardly impudence! Oh! . . . This was not the Wall Street Journal. He was reading the Bawl Street Journal, its gay, impish perfect imitation which the Manhattan Bond Club issues for its annual picnic. Now he could settle down to enjoy the neighborhood merriment...
...moon became a mad sun leering like an eyeball in the forehead of a vast, demented skyscape. Nothing made him so angry as praise of pictures he considered poor. Once a financier stopped with ponderous approbation before the worst canvas in his studio. "Marvelous, Mr. Innes. The most perfect thing you have done...