Word: perfectos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...
...only one man knew how hot would be the words at that session. This was Labormaster John L. Lewis, the first-and next-to-last-witness. Solemnly and heavily he sat in the witness-chair, his coal-miner's pallor* heightened by his rumpled white suit, a Havana perfecto gripped deep in his big chops. In his usual low rumble he began to speak. Gradually the rumble rolled up into a basso roar as his jowls filled with rage. He pounded the committee-table till the ashtrays jumped, then exploded in a statement which will be remembered long after...
...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...
...weeks ago the hall of the House of Representatives in Manila was turned temporarily into an operating room. A doctor opened a vein in the arm of Gregorio Perfecto so that worthy delegate might sign his name to the new Philippine Constitution in his own warm blood. If a new Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands could not be founded by the sword, it was better, thought Delegate Perfecto, that it should be founded by the lancet than...
...back two cigar factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic events in the cigar industry of the last decade...