Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsinian who has devoted many years of his life to studying Indian relics and is the only white man who has ever discovered and imitated the lost Indian method of chipping flint arrowheads with bits of bone and a crude hammer! Recently he gave an exhibition here, chipping out perfect heads in 15 minutes each, with motions that looked so simple until one tried them...
...attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...
During the week, the Government maintained perfect control over its majority in the Commons. And great was its encouragement when the returns from a by-election for the Buckrose division of Yorkshire, showed that Major A. N. Brathwaite (Conservative) had won, receiving 12,089 votes, as opposed to 10,537 cast for Sir Harry Verney (Liberal) and only 2,191 for H. C. Laycock (Laborite...
...famous lady of literature whose charm was very near perfection unfortunately possessed a birth-mark of position and prominence sufficient to cause her infinite torture. And so the lady had the birthmark removed. But--and the moral of the story lingers here--being thus made perfect, the lady departed into thin air. Harvard certainly need not fear any such immediate dissipation...
...parallel with the burly coward who terrorizes an alley, a block, a school or a town is well-nigh perfect. Mr. Lewis thought he was annihilating religion by his defiance of the Deity to strike him dead. He was, in fact, giving an amazing exhibition of bad taste, insulting and shocking to every religious mind...