Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Washington and world politics last week, Dean Acheson gracefully picked his way, reminding a British journalist of a Velasquez grandee-tall and thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
...Manhattan, the Artists' League of America carefully sized up the world's beauties, brashly issued a list of "The Most Perfect Features." The league's beauties, in order of attributes: forehead -the Duchess of Windsor ("slopes exactly right"); ears-Margaret Truman ("an exact replica of those found in Greek sculpture"); eyes-Princess Margaret ("softness is the test"); nose-Madame Chiang Kai-shek ("the less obtrusive the more perfect"); cheekbones-Jane Russell; lips-Rita Hayworth ("the test lies in the reaction of the opposite sex"); thighs -Esther Williams ("the anomalous combination of firmness and softness"); legs -Linda Darnell...
There is, of course, no solution which will be altogether perfect. Variations occur, sometimes as high as 50 per cent, between preliminary enrollments and final numbers. A real improvement, however, is possible...
...Tories, the parallel seemed perfect. The present Liberal government was in its 14th year of continuous power. It had a new head in Prime Minister St. Laurent, but it was essentially a continuation of William Lyon Mackenzie King's administration. The fact that St. Laurent was a French-Canadian made the parallel look even better to the Tories; once again Quebeckers had rejected one of their...
Prince Philip, 27, hailed by the London Master Tailors' Benevolent Association as the "perfect example of how a Briton should be dressed on all occasions," graciously accepted the honor: "I am one of the generation that started the war in nappies [diapers], spent the next eight years in uniform, and, when peace broke out, found myself without any clothes...