Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he reached the platform in Gray Chapel, on the Campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, all Delaware was massed in the seats. Marching clubs were milling about. The "President-making" Republican Glee Club of Columbus sang the late Mrs. Harding's favorite song, "The End of a Perfect Day." Senator Willis, feeling though not recognizing the start of a cerebral hemorrhage, muttered to his wife that he needed air. He walked across the platform, staggered through the door, fell into the arms of his secretary, Charles A. Jones...
Such mad and quixotic propaganda is particularly obnoxious to the Holy See because it strains the proverbially good relations existing between shrewd, sleepy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of the French Republic and suave, far-sighted Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
...terms with Christian governments outside of Italy and to wear down the resistance of succeeding Italian regimes to the Pope's claims of temporal sovereignty. Upon this point, Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican, declared last fall that His Holiness claims: "Liberty and independence, not only real and perfect, but also manifest to the faithful of the whole world...
...Crowden, physiologist of University College, London, made a 25 year study on a pair of identical twins. They had the same illnesses at the same time during this period. Their profile photographs superimposed in any year resulted in a perfect outline, with no marring double line. X-ray photographs of their skulls superimposed in every part, and their body measurements, height, weight were practically identical. Finger prints of one were mirror images of fingerprints of the other. The blood composition and count, the temperature and respiration rates were the same. They had the same temperaments and attitudes of mind. Accused...
Perhaps it is too much to hope that among ten thousand thesis writers at Harvard there may be that Cantabrigian Ed Wynn, that perfect fool who, like another Leacock, will bring nonsense laurels to the American university...