Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this way Petruchio, Katharine, Grumio, Hortensio, and the rest become more human than ever. Mr. Leiber as Petruchio is perfect. He carries the necessary bragadaccio to just the proper point, and as he strides about horse-whip in hand inflicting his will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts...
...errors by" that made the World's Series of 1927 as one- sided as any series that ever has been played. Probably the New York American League team, the Yankees, would have defeated the Pittsburgh National League team, the Pirates, even with perfect defensive play by the Pittsburgh players. Yet but for Pittsburgh errors the New York club could hardly have won four games out of four, could hardly have made the watching thousands wonder audibly, indeed raucously, how the Pittsburgh team ever succeeded in winning the right to represent the National League in the contest for the baseball championship...
...held it even longer. But both, unfortunately, have lost to some extent their novelty for playgoers. Time was when a Belasco production, correct to the last curl of cigaret smoke, was considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home...
...this new volume Mr. Orcutt, in the most informal and companionable way possible, shares with his readers his further adventures and reflections in his quest of the perfect book. Nearly a hundred illustrations illuminate the text, and the Fournier type has been especially imported, while the cover design is adapted from Nicolas...
...given us verse, and such inimitable verse--all about Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and the old sailor. There are no adjectives to describe the appeal of this book. It is unbelievable that after "When We Were Very Young" and "Winnie-the-Pooh" there should be anything as perfect as "Now We Are Six." Ernest Shepard has simply outdone himself with the decorations...