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Word: perfectness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home with taxi-drivers. It is a sprightly picture, never convulsing the audience with laughter, but leaving it happy and satisfied. It has faults, to be sure, a trite plot and some forced situations, but Miss Colbert sweeps it along to victory. Right by her side is John Barrymore perfect as ever and clearly the hero in his rare moments of appearance. Mr. Barrymore should not be subdued that way; but unfortunately the spotlight demands a younger triangle of which Francis Lederer is about sixty degrees and Don Ameche thirty. The odd part is that Miss Colbert, as a penniless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...name of Mme Vimara, has composed an opera called Chimera and a march named Dynamic Detroit, and has a book of poems entitled White Magic to her credit. Detroit is more likely to remember her, however, for her frequent appearances around town with a pet bull snake ("A perfect lamb," she called him) coiled around her neck, and for her always interesting parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Violet to Copenhagen | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...right when you say it is bad taste or no taste at all to like some thing herdwise, witness the recent and almost leprous enthusiasm for the dead van Gogh ... I wish you perfect joy in your illustrious solitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hartley's Figures | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

That paradox began with NRA, which was almost a perfect expression of monopolistic economics. When it was abolished, the New Deal reversed its field, has since been on an anti-trust rampage. But a large group of New Dealers (such as Economist Leon Henderson) have continued to favor the NRA approach. With creation of the "business appeasement" policy, they have begun to emerge from the New Deal doghouse, to the alarm of more left-wing New Dealers (such as Lawyers Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen, Economist David Cushman Coyle). Last week's blast against steel was meant to chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Old Quarrel | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Some of them: Lawrence, who changed his name (to Ross, to Shaw) was not really named Lawrence at all. In a letter to Robert Graves he says: "My father took name of Lawrence (not even my mother's name) when he left Ireland." He was never letter-perfect in Arabic; says he: "Feisal called my Arabic 'a perpetual adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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