Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing...
...Harmony, 800 starry-eyed Owenites embarked on the perfect life...
...complimented Tom Connally on his "sturdy statement" and added: "I have no illusions that the San Francisco conference can chart the millennium. Please do not expect it of us. ... But I have faith that we may perfect this charter of peace and justice so that reasonable men of good will shall find in it so much good and so much emancipation for human hopes that all lesser doubts and disagreements may be resolved in its favor...
...organization will lack all the essential attributes of sovereignty. It professes to be "based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states." Not all its members are as "peace-loving" as non-members Sweden and Switzerland; the "equality"of the members is far from perfect; but nobody can deny that their "sovereignty," especially that of the big nations, is rigorously observed...
...Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and the woodwinds had answered softly to the climactic bar 23, when the invitation is over and the waltz begins. Suddenly from the left wings of the stage bounded a dark-haired, barefoot girl in black jersey shirt and slacks-in perfect time she lightly leaped across the stage, past the harpists, past the second violinists, behind the bent back of Maestro Toscanini, in front of the first violinists...