Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little difference in the long run. He went out into the frost; presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom God himself will not receive. ..." So he lived in hunger among rocks, trees, beasts. The birds, knowing his gentle heart, came close...
Viscount Edward Grey of Fallodon: "I have written another book, this time not on war* but on birds, beasts, flowers. I wrote about my sanctuary for waterfowl. Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand. . . .' Then I wrote of the late Theodore Roosevelt, how once he and I spent 20 hours studying bird song in the wilds of Hampshire. Said I: '. . . [Roosevelt] had a real feeling and taste for bird song...
Concerning names-in-a-million, TIME of Aug. 30 is clearly right. Mr. Planalp, Mr. Staats, Mary Byram, Otto Baab, Otto Egge and others have proven that "there is more than one person whose surname is a perfect, proper palindrome." Therefore some else must claim the name-in-a-million...
...Harvard Athletic Association is in perfect accord with the sentiments of the Crimson given publicity last fall, namely: that over-emphasis on college football is detrimental to the good of the college and to the good of the game. Therefore, the Association feels that any effort it can make toward diminishing the usual fanfare attached to athletic enterprise is greatly to be desired. Hence, it at any time it becomes desirable to vary the schedule without breaking any existing convenants. Harvard is perfectly justified in so doing. And there is no reason to suggest that any inconsistency attaches to keeping...
...Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...