Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers are well satisfied with he present arrangement. Lindauer commented that "everyone's heard of the perfect set-up. Well...
Throughout the remainder of the picture, she takes care of one tot after another, always turning out perfect little ladies and gentlemen of whom she can be justly proud. Eventually they grow up, and reappear in a particularly tear-jerking scene to hand over their own children to her care...
...Metropolitan's Rigoletto had gone even longer (35 years) without new clothes than Aïida. Bing called in Painter-Designer Eugene Berman, and Berman's bright new costumes and sets were a perfect fit: they satisfied convention without slurring modernity. His solid 15th Century Italian ducal city glowed with faded pink marble and magnificent early Renaissance rooms; his costumes, like Aïda's, splashed with color...
Excavation for the $800,000 Bowl began in 1913 and was completed in time for the Harvard-Yale game of 1914. Architect Charles A. Ferry in a dedication speech termed it "the perfect stadium." But according to the Boston Globe, "Yale did the dedicating and Harvard did the playing (November 21, 1914) when the Crimson dealt the Blue a 36 to 0 trouncing...
...individually-and for each one a spot on next week's lineup is at stake. The grades range from 1 "for superb effort like a triple block," to 7 "for a bonehead play or a costly fumble." A grade of 4 is average. Against Cornell, Kazmaier had a "perfect" game; he never slipped below 4, and got three of the five ones the coaching staff gave...