Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part of me. But all of me. I would rather-far rather-look at a Zig- strange as it may seem, than at the Holy...
...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
Buried in the musty minutes of the Washington Conference lies perhaps the perfect tribute to Gustave Henri Camerlynck-his rightful epitaph. As the Conference was about to adjourn, Arthur James Balfour. Chief of the British Delegation, rose with his usual majestic deliberation and sonorously addressed the Delegates...
...Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja or big Maharaja read his speech from a typewritten copy, and the perfect unanimity of the proceeding was an impressive tribute to what is called "the genius of Great Britain for governing Backward Peoples...
...freshman were unable to offer serious opposition to the 1932 fencing team who defeated them 7 to 2 last night at the Hemenway Gymnasium. Harry Beckwith '32 made a perfect performance by taking all of his three bouts. H. M. Krutter (M. I. T.) won the only two bouts for his team...