Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...danger from abroad. For nearly a thousand years no foreign army had landed on British soil. For a hundred years the safety of the homeland had never been threatened. They went about their business, their sport, their class and party fights year after year, generation after generation, in perfect confidence and considerable ignorance...
...papers doomed to failure, but never once did he fail. He hates details but can easily grasp them. He is a master of business but it has not enslaved him. He loves big things. He works hard. He enjoys vacations. He has always been scrupulously honest. He is a perfect judge of men. His associates and employees adore him. Cyrus H. K. Curtis is public-spirited. He is spiritual-minded. He never took music lessons but can play the organ marvellously. He has a very big yacht. The above is the substance of what his son:in-law, Edward...
Ayesha's life should never have been written. All the glamor and mystery with which She was surrounded have been explained away, and we learn to know the daughter of Yarab too well. She is just a self-willed woman crossed in love by one who, though far from perfect, was at least a faithful wife and mother...
...Babbitt clan. He is a spectacle intolerable in his noisy stupidity. But he is pathetic in his back-slapping assumption of confidence. He has built for himself a legend of his own magnificence, only at times shattered by the cold contact of reality. Mrs. Pinney, too, is perfect in her way. She is the unmistakable, corpulent complement of all Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above the shrewd cataloguing of the minutiae of vulgarity. And too much reliance...
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 eventually a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes many a laugh...