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Word: perfected (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situations that are comic in themselves, doubly so with the apt subtitles. Incongruous comparisons are an excellent means of making things look ridiculous, and Lampy has used that means to good advantage. The intimate glimpses of "the spacious colonial mansion of Mrs. Nicholas Carter in Butte, Montana" form a perfect take off, appearing natural and harmless enough at first glance, but revealing their sly satire in the captions and details...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: LAMPY RIDICULES HIGH SOCIETY IN PARODY OF "TOWN AND COUNTRY" | 2/13/1923 | See Source »

...whole game was a battle between the opposing goals. Bradford for the Freshmen and Kaufman for the schoolboys. Both men put up a perfect defense, and each stopped well over 50 shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN BATTLE ST. PAUL'S TO SCORELESS TIE | 2/12/1923 | See Source »

...customary mellifiuous language, he has appealed to the sporting instinct of Americans, (Don't hit a man when he's down). He is asking us to interfere with regard to France's demands for reparations, to which she has a perfect right, and which are long overdue. Let us hope that our sporting instinct in this case will not push us to actions which would cause unlimited trouble for ourselves and for other nations in the future. In 1914 our sporting instinct was not strong enough to make us side with a downtrodden nation with which every principle of honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/3/1923 | See Source »

...Freshman hockey team, in its game with the Phillips Andover Academy team this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Charlesbank Rinks, will try to add another victory to its so far perfect record. The 1926 sextet will meet in the academy team its strongest opponent so far this season. Both teams have played Cambridge Latin, the Freshmen winning 3-0 and Andover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1926 WILL MEET ANDOVER | 1/27/1923 | See Source »

Never before has a royal tomb been discovered in such perfect condition. The early robbers carried away the loose gold but apparently little else, and before the day of the more serious and disastrous rifting Tutankhamen's grave was lost to sight and human knowledge as well. Indeed so complete was the disappearance that another tomb, that of Rameses VI was built above it; and the present find was largely good fortune perhaps granted by the Pharaohs themselves as a reward for persistence to Mr. Carter the discoverer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SAD DULL DAY | 1/13/1923 | See Source »

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