Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous scout and liar, and his friend Jackson are wonderfully portrayed. The scene where they get "lickered up" together, and then each take a shot at a mug of whiskey perched on the other's head, just to snow that a man can always trust an old friend, is perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However...
...American countries, was turned down because of the peculiar circumstances arising from war conditions, but that action should in no way serve as a precedent for the settlement of this question, except in that making the decision in 1915, the Board then assumed that the Reserve Banks had a perfect right to establish branches. At that time the sole factor considered was expediency, and there is no reason, as some people have believed, for now questioning the legality of Reserve Bank branches in foreign countries...
...great satisfaction this soon attracted the eye of one of the proctors. I had a speech all prepared. I was only waiting for a chance to get up and denounce them, calling the attention of everyone to the fact that I had a perfect right to study in the room and that I was not even registered in the class taking the examination...
With these two productions still in mind it was interesting to see the play as given by the Moscow Art Theatre. So different was the touch, so much subtler the method so much more perfect the artistry from beginning to the end that the play seemed a different play. At the Saturday afternoon performance Mihail Tarkhanoff played Luka. It would be difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness...
...morning and flying low to get their bearings anew, they piloted their Fokker T-2 in a country of forests, ravines and canyons, treacherous air currents, and at one point flew most dangerously between the walls of a deep canyon. Yet they pronounced their flight " humdrum," and landed in perfect condition-except for hearing slightly affected by the continuous roar of the motor...