Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erased at first base. Ellison, hitting for Cutts, drove a sharp hit to right, sending Ullman to the far turn, where he waited while Burns drew a pass. Bennett ran for Ellison, and took third when Ullman scored on Jones' single. Zarakov fouled out, but Lord, who had a perfect day with four hits and a walk in five trips to the rubber, hit viciously to center, and Bennett and Burns registered at the plate...
...with an uncanny flair for perceiving genius in unknown writers. "No one else in the world could have anticipated Jurgen by reading The Cream of the Jest." His wife, however, had this to say: "Well, he snores, grinds his teeth and moans in his sleep; but otherwise he is perfect." Mr. Rascoe likes to hear young writers' troubles, is enthusiastic, sociable, voluble. He has the long nose of intelligence; curly hair, bright eyes, rare words...
...enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured by the bird-like youth for hip, breast, ankle, calf dimensions. The evidence having been accumulated, the publisher ponders the records, the while his young attendant implores him to write his memoirs. The girl with the most perfect measurements is just about to be appointed to fill the position when in marches a woman in an old-fashioned bathing suit that reaches to her knees. She presents documents from the Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary, Schwab, et al., testifying that she is the most efficient stenographer...
...prove 1) That man is too busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate the political structure so as to alleviate economic distress, man swings from autocracy to democracy with perfect futility. The settings convey an impression of cogwheels, greasy steel pistons, chains, derricks, clanking, rumbling, thumping. The tempo is furious, yet the action is not without clarity. Probably Rapid Transit, when it was first written several years ago, was startlingly radical. Today, it is a better one of many...
...Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel suit against Producer Jed Harris. 3) Theatregoers have a perfect example of the modern drama of "debunk" ? melodramatic, cruelly ironical, peppered with smart cracks, staged with a faithfulness to reality that belies its flashy, imaginative cunning...