Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students are of course members of the University, and therefore have a perfect right to obtain their meals at Memorial. But have a certain number of them a right to impose upon their table companions their arguments, reaching nearly to quarrels sometimes, and their discussions, carried on in a high voice, so high as to command the attention of all those sitting at their table and even of many who sit at neighboring tables? Their language, and also their subjects for discussion, are often objectionable to many who sit near them...
...bless me, I quite forgot - so I 've thought of a way to interest the poor little things. Make nice pretty verses about all the places, and they 'll learn a good deal about them and the people too. This way, for instance; this one 's a perfect beauty...
...damizize, has thus spoke winged words to a real, perfect lady...
...Boston audience at this house, on the 10th of this month. They have since appeared in an almost nightly change of familiar operas. Many of the troupe, as Duplan and Mezieres, are old favorites, always excellent and always welcome. Mlle. Marie comes to us with the perfect musical and dramatic education of her elder sisters, and with the additional attraction of youth. Her acting is a nightly surprise, and her singing is worthy of serious opera. Her Clairette, Duchesse, and Boulotte are marked by a cleverness and finish which many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles...
...quite too awfully awful dresses those poor creatures used to wear! Such guys as they must have looked! Just fancy me, Professor, with a nasty, horrid, old tunica on, and the most dreadful-looking sleeves, and a palla hanging down over my l-limbs, - why, I should be a perfect fright! And, O Professor! don't you think the girls' stockings must have been...