Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these were splendid, well-nigh perfect dogs. But when, on the second day, the winners in every breed paraded into the ring so that the judges could choose from among them a champion of champions, an Ace-King of the show, the grand prize went to none of these. It went to an obscure little white...
...heat of the moment the author neglects to enlarge upon them specific attainments. He is a violent little Voltaire with faith in epithets and protoplasm, but not in philosophy. In 1913 he took a Nobel Prize for physiology, and to him wisdom is manifest in the perfect functioning of an animal organism unmolested by what others have been pleased to call the "higher" mental faculty. Farfetched, superficial, his book is but an amusing social irritant...
...Form Fit Sartorial subtleties. But Kipling never reached the heights in that verse which he attained in "The Ladies". I fancy he never reached such heights anywhere else, and I've read all the verse he ever wrote, read it and re-read it. No, "The Ladies" is perfect, complete, sufficient. And especially when one has just enjoyed a conference of the Intercollegiate Literary Magazines of Eastern America and Boston...
Basil Sydney, who recently played Hamlet in modern clothes, Alphonz Ethier and Violet Heming have been summoned by Mr. Hopkins for the new performance. It is said by comparatively minded commentators that Mr. Sydney is perhaps not so perfect in the role as John Barrymore. Ethier, say these same, is as good as Mr. Lionel. Violet Heming is considerably better than the girl six years ago (her name escapes). But comparisons, as has been said, are odious. The present Jest is far too fine to admit of them. It easily ranks among the scattered few you must not miss...
...From the perfect condition of the block and the intact slate of the microscopically thin sheets of plaster of paris between them it is certain that the tomb was never broken into. Any other entrance into such a well-like structure is out of the question. For weeks the work went on of the question. For weeks the work went on of the clearing of the ponderous limestone blocks. The shaft grew deeper and deeper. All records for depth were broken. Temporary quarters for the workers were built the hole and barbed wire was put up to keep off prying...