Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclose check for renewal. TIME has become a necessity. A perfect antidote to wordy news and vain repetitions. Style reminds me of Sydney Bulletin, Australia's national weekly. This paper was started without a staff, run mainly on contributions from all over the country, from mines, cattle stations and the bush. These were edited by the office...
...Quotation from one "Lindbergh song": And as you winged your astral way God smiled-you were so near- He could not fail such perfect faith, Fly on and have no fear. Oh, glorious France, Oh, noble France, How gallant are your ways, You sheathe fresh sorrows with a smile. To glorify his days...
...guard were to be 50 men, three officers, a surgeon and a medical detachment. Guardsmen were to be selected by Lieut. Col. R. W. Walker and, said General Smith, "every man will be as perfect a soldier as there is in the United States Army." This will be the first Army presidential guard, Marines having previously served as presidential protectors. The guard was to camp about a half-mile from the State Lodge...
...Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies...
...absorbed Manhattan audience of 600 musicians, engineers, makers of musical instruments, this famed sound scientist, and opponent of the Einstein theory showed how the increased density of metal improves the tone of the instrument, talked on the development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...