Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stewart, a popular author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play...
Although he is too gaunt and spindle shacked a figure to impress as the perfect Hamlet, Eliot Duvey handles one of Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...
...Senate voting record on foreign policy was consistent, never tinged with Midwestern isolationism. He is committed to carrying out the Roosevelt plan for world security, and in a speech last month in Chicago he said: "We must not wait for a perfect international plan. . . . We must act, and act promptly. ... As we united in victory, we must unite in peace." His friends predict that in international dealings (i.e., bases, air routes, etc.) he will be a shrewd bargainer, with U.S. interests firmly in mind...
...world, remembering that unique friendship, could not afford to overestimate it or assume that it was perfect and irreplaceable. It was not perfect, especially for Churchill. A story of a recent conversation between Churchill and his Moscow Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, went the London rounds last week. After all the war years, Churchill was impelled to ask the British diplomat closest to the Moscow Government...
...Tweed held out. One by one, the other Americans were caught and beheaded or shot. His days of electric-lit caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start...