Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, the League of Nations is not perfect. No human instrument ever is. But there are two things about it-it is a beginning and it is the only one by which it is possible to secure the means for which it was created...
...World was dying, and he knew it. He sat there among his pillows, wracked, without a thought of himself. It was literally true, Cobb of The World was thinking of the world. He said to me : "Theodore Roosevelt, succeeding to William McKinley as President, fell heir to an almost perfect party machine, which never in his time failed to function. Today Republican leadership is bankrupt, rent by volt.' " faction, oppressed by mutterings of revolt...
...Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...
...what should be changed. This wonderful career is not an accident. Macready is a most pertinent example of mens sana in corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot six in height, he weighs only about 130 pounds, has broad shoulders and a trim waist. He keeps himself in perfect condition, is always mentally and physically alert. Certainly Macready needed all his alertness, coolness and skill in his hazardous exploit of last week. On a recent night flight from Columbus, Macready found his motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field...
Shortly after the Bulletin had descended upon Manhattan, the stork brought another infant, a real surprise, for the general public had only one day's notice of its coming. It was the Daily Mirror. Like all good mirrors, it presented almost a perfect image. In this case it was an almost perfect image of the Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, the Daily News. Their outward semblances varied only to the discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines...