Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though my English is far from perfect, I am a constant reader of your magazine...
...space is fierce and unrelenting. Local policemen are tossing off tickets to violators faster than candidates for the Republican nomination utter cliches. But across the river, in what is swiftly becoming paradise on earth, Model Ts will nestle side by side with Cadillacs, in ample space and perfect safety...
...acting manner no less charming. Her eighteenth century makeup is excellent, and her innocent, pseudo-proper, very British diction in the spoken dialogue a special attraction of the evening. Miss Findlay is bewitching and demure as the 17-year old mother of the lad of 25, and Miss Halman perfect as the frightening but not really fierce Fairy Queen...
...first-night curtain went up half an hour late. Otherwise all was in perfect Broadway order: there was nothing to suggest that half the cast had barely set foot in the country, that none had slept in a bed for five nights...
...written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...