Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months...
...smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders. The newspapers became colorless. Gone even from politics was the zest, the vivifying friction of the Aryans' perfect complements in life, the Semites. Poverty and gloom filled Vienna...
There had been a total solar eclipse, new comets, unusual sunspots and the only perfect lunar appulse in four centuries...
...abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official...
...Author. Son of Critic Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, to whom the great Russians own their most perfect translations into English, and grandson of Author Richard Garnett (Twilight of the Gods), David Garnett nearly betrayed his literary birthright by studying science (gentle Botany). But in 1920, aged 27, he was claimed by books. He opened a bookshop and fell to writing. Lady into Fox appeared after two years. Lest he turn back to science, he was awarded a prize. His wife, who was Rachel Marshall, does woodcuts...