Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julian LaRose Harris had the perfect entree to Southern journalism as the son of Joel Chandler ("Uncle Remus") Harris. He cashed in on it so brilliantly that at 23 he was managing editor of Henry Grady's Atlanta Constitution...
This caused the Prime Minister to tell the House with that perfect aplomb which never leaves Stanley Baldwin: "Mr. Morgan is an old personal friend of mine with whom I have stayed in New York. He always comes to see me when he is in this country. I hope he will continue to do so." Meanwhile New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled : "Persons who attended the royal garden party last week noticed the almost affectionate greetings that Mr. Morgan received from the King and Queen. He had waited patiently at the end of a long line of Dominion...
...slow that First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell next day addressed a letter of apology to each distinguished guest. In swank Mayfair a rich young Argentine made herself obnoxious to English friends by screaming at cocktail parties, "My dears, in the crush I had a perfect piece of meat on my plate when a clutching hand came over my shoulder and seized it! Wolves-those people on the Maine were simply wolves...
...nearly perfect sample of self-made middle-class Englishman is Harold Keates Hales, M. P. Short, red-faced, hearty, with a good opinion of his own wits, an honest satisfaction with his eccentricities, he wears a stand-up "jam pot" collar and claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses...
This gave unintellectual Prime Minister Baldwin the perfect opening for a perfect English retort. "We are being censured for not having any considered plan." said Stanley Baldwin easily. "I have never been a slave to a word. If there is a word that has been ridden to death today it is the word PLAN. I have seen nothing of planning in any foreign country that would lead me to think it is a universal panacea. I don't exactly know what plan is. For some kinds of plans there are books and pamphlets undertaking to cure unemployment...