Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flower in beauty?she reveals with psychology for her spade. By this method, she puts the whole of Endymion through psychological reconstruction; explains why the Ode to a Grecian Urn is a "flawless example of clear, unvexed, wide-eyed beauty"; the Ode to a Nightingale "a no less perfect presentation of absolute magic"; why "Keats' whole soul was in The Eve of St. Agnes"; Hyperion she scores as "a failure"; praises the little-famed Meg Merrilies...
...name Nina Romano), whose marriage 14 months ago was announced only last week, a son, Rex, some months ago. The birth of the child was kept secret because his parents feared that it would "damage their professional careers." Said Mrs. Tellegen of her husband: "He is more than the perfect lover. He is the perfect husband, the perfect father." Said Geraldine Farrar, famed diva, onetime wife: "Just can't be bothered; forgotten...
...group of confreres in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, have worked with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly to germs, harmless to man, a perfect antiseptic. Last week, came the announce- ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid...
...encouraging to note that the people of the country are, in the mood for better plays. And it has been a pleasure to us actors to read the one-act plays that have come from the 47 Workshop, many of them perfect gems. For we realize what a tremendous force for good 2000 James Barries could exert in this country. Naturally, your Workshop could not trun Barries out of the whole cloth, but certainly it has already shown that it has helped at least a few such to find themselves. But at this time it is pathetic, the note...
...rendered is greater or less than attempting to improve existing departments of the University. and this will depend upon the needs of those departments, and upon the question whether it is better to have a limited number of departments of the highest excellence or a larger number less perfect. We must remember also that at Harvard any deficits practically come out of the central cultural part of the University under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, because the other parts have as a rule their own funds which cannot be used for general purposes...