Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give studio visitors bits of brightly colored glass, potters nervously about his workrooms with sparse reddish hair on end and reddish-grey beard wagging, continuously jots down memoranda, hopes someday to "write the whole Bible in living colors," works with unceasing self-criticism to see that his craftsmanship is perfect, his meanings clear. With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window...
...French Casino's canvas top which one night leaked buckets of rain on her naked body, spoiled her swan dance. But for the 250,000 people who last week gaped at Dancer Leverne and other exhibits of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, her remark was the perfect tribute to a city's spirited struggle to lift itself up & out of Depression...
Nazi newsorgans, normally obliged to be as hostile to Negroes as to Jews, were permitted to quote Schmeling as saying: "Louis is a great boxer with a perfect eye who never misses an opening." While Mother Schmeling, her son and daughter-in-law were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...
...common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate nurse "most perfect in looks, charm, poise, intelligence." Winner: Helen Clark, 22, well-dressed Tucson, Ariz, brunette. Eugenist Paul Popenoe of Pasadena's Institute of Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged...
Possibly because of its unimportant cast and modest aspirations, Bunker Bean is practically perfect hot-weather entertainment...