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Word: perfected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symposium", like the Intercollegiate and Silver bay conferences, is as Pres. Harding would say "a step in the right direction", and every encouragement should be offered those who have the initiative and courage to try to remedy an unsatisfactory situation. Educational methods are acknowledged to be far from perfect; and any improvements which students can suggest will be received eagerly by everyone, and not least of all by the muchabused faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A FEAST OF REASON" | 4/27/1923 | See Source »

...Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing-room. As the somewhat declasse Lady Marjorie she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court. P o L LY PREFERRED - Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and finally a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes most of the laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...given of enlisted men blacking a looie's boots. Deliberately false advertising, that's what it is.' " General Pershing: "I issued an order that the Army should improve its style in correspondence. Conciseness, brevity, careful wording, correct paragraphing and the personal touch-these things make the perfect letter, and the perfect letter-writer." Battling Siki: "Because I punched the face of a waiter in a cafe, a Paris newspaper suggested that 'in the name of all organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Frank A. Vanderlip: " I returned to New York from California in perfect health. Insulin, new serum for diabetes, has given me an appetite like a hired man. And I can look rare beef and boiled potatoes squarely in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

POLLY PREFERRED - Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and finally a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes most of the laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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