Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has a perfect equipment with a great theatre and a magnificently appointed stage, dressing rooms, rehearsal halls, property room, dye room, carpentry shop and all the rest; while there are classrooms and libraries and study rooms where the many courses on stagecraft and writing are conducted. The elaborate lighting switches, the large stage under the main auditorium where experimental work may be conducted on a large scale, the main stage with a loft of 75 feet and a depth of 80 feet, and the signal system for calling the actors and directing the production are among the many conveniences...
Amid surprise, stillness reigned. No dealer raised the Aga Khan, though amateurs had expected the "Golden Dawn" to bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative...
...less interesting to see how the romantic conception of Greek art influences popular opinion today. When we think of a Greek temple the very expression "classic", by which we describe it suggests pure white, immaculate marble, austere straight lines, and perfect symmetry. Much the same conception arises in regard to sculpture. That the snowy whiteness of the marble should ever have been colored seems not only impossible to most people but almost sac-religious. But it is well to realize that not only was such sculpture as was done in marble painted in many details, but also that colored designs...
Brushing aside this question of principle, the Roman Catholic clergy pointed out the perfect technical propriety of the Vanderbilt- Marlborough annulment by the Rota, a court so august that the sheer weight of its legal machinery prevents it being set in motion except in behalf of litigants of some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before...
There had been 20 hours of final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...