Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Old Darling" is the perfect medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...
...just show me any body that is entirely perfect and I will show you, an Angel floating in the stratusphere, with a golden harp, and a pair of silver wings and an old fashioned night shirt. JOHN V. CAFFREY Denver, Colo...
...were keyed to the widespread German belief that the 11th Olympiad, which reaches its climax next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international goodwill lost during three years of Naziism. The whole country had been carefully primed to play the perfect host to the visiting athletes from 28 nations, who, Germans fondly hoped, would afterward scatter to the world as friendly missionaries for the Third Reich...
...talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly. In Charles MacArthur he found his perfect complement: together they produced the 1928 smash...
15th. Lay pleasantly till 8, watching the snow "as Jove," methought, "descending from his Tower" come softly down. Thence up to draw the window but staid looking and caught a few perfect snowflakes on my gown. And Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this...