Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect cook, 46? per month; plain chambermaid, 43? upper chambermaid, 64? housekeeper, 86? nurse, 43? educated governess, 64? girl under 15 years, 20? 16-year-old girl, 40? day helpers...
...casting: At the national tournament at Denver, C. G. Chatt, of Chicago, made the first perfect score for accuracy (100 points) ever recorded in tournament competition...
...Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book...
...Most of them are living from hand to mouth, doing the best they can. Five hundred thousand of the 130,000,000 are Communists, and they form the new ruling class. All ruling classes naturally believe their Government, if not perfect, is better than other forms of government...
...York-Newport Air Service (TIME, July 9) there occurred an unfortunate accident. After flying 20,000 miles on this route with perfect regularity, the Fleet Wing, one of the operating airplanes, dived sharply into the water on reaching the Newport terminal and was badly damaged. H. Gary Morgan, of New York, suffered complicated fractures of the left leg, which necessitated amputation above the knee. Mr. Morgan failed to rally from the operation and died four days later at a hospital in Newport. Two other passengers escaped uninjured...