Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot Perkins, master of Lowell, says that in its last year under Coolidge in 1940 his House reached its perfect state. With 100 less students than at present, each senior knew each other senior if not on a social level on an intellectual one. Social distinctions were at a minimum within the House and had been replaced by a congenial friendship among men of varying backgrounds. That situation has now somewhat deteriorated. A junior in the House recently remarked that there are not eight other students in the building he knew or liked well enough to sit down...
...eccentric comes to stay in a small British town. He is one of the harmless kind who imagines he is Napoleon Bonaparte, carries a rabbit in his old-fashioned beaver, decks out in a Dickensian weskit and cravat, and parades the streets in perfect weather under an open umbrella, followed by mobs of delighted children. Everybody calls him Napoleon, and is happy to have him around for laughs. The beauty of it is that Napoleon, in a well-juggled ending, turns out to be not so mad after all-or is he really much, much madder...
...back into it again as a lecturer) when he decided that the world was all vanity and vexation of spirit. He believed that God had wisely implanted in man a "yearning" towards the world-to-come. in which place alone would man find an "eternity of happiness . . . the only perfect happiness." Since, however, man could not escape a period of earthly sojourn, it was up to him to make it as much like Heaven as possible...
...drawn reaper lurched through a field of grain on a Virginia farm one day in 1831. Beside it marched two men, one white, one black. The white man was Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first practical reaper. The Negro was his slave Jo Anderson, whose devoted work had helped perfect the machine. In the 123 years since, Inventor McCormick's International Harvester Co. has not forgotten the way its founder and Jo Anderson worked together. This week, in Manhattan, the National Urban League honored International Harvester with its "Industrial Statesmanship" Award for the company's steady, uncompromising policy...
...Perfect Crime. In Atlantic City, N.J., on trial for stabbing Charles Gorham, Willie May Baker revealed that she had since married her victim, went free after paying a $100 fine...