Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This short of huge vote-getting subsidy is much more dangerous than straight, under-cover bribery. When Rhode Island votes were bought and sold at $1 a head, Lincoln Stiffens could stir the most tremendous and universal indignation by "exposing" the fact. But now the politician has a perfect weapon; he deals with larger sums of money, and it not only does not break the law, it is the law. Any accusation that a President has been buying votes of Youth, Age, and Farmers, pumped huge sums into Kentucky and Maine just before elections, meets only with the most tremendous...
...performance has been a success. Since she arrived in the U. S. the hearty Norse has never had reason to deny herself the champagne reward. Like every singer who has made a Metropolitan success, she has taken to the road, given concerts before audiences which have seemingly found her perfect. This season she has already given 32 recitals in addition to four performances with the San Francisco Opera (TIME, Nov. 4). She made her concert debut in Manhattan last week and though her voice was sure and strong, it was sometimes grainy, perhaps from fatigue. Most singers who are suddenly...
...Group does not think it necessary to maintain that Paradise Lost is a 'perfect' play. . . . We believe that . . . the least that one might expect is a clear-cut statement to the effect that every sensitive theatregoer must by all means...
...took this trip into the far north in February, which most people think is a crazy time to go on an expedition, for several reasons. In the first place the atmospheric conditions are perfect for photography at that time. Besides this, the sun is low enough to give shadows and throw all our pictures into relief. Most important of all, with snow on the ground, it was possible to land with skis almost anywhere on lakes or glaciers...
...test out the principles of good after dinner speaking, and instructors trained to detect flaws in the student's method of preparing a speech and in the technique of his delivery, a man is enabled in the short space of half a year, if not to make a perfect public speaker of himself, at least to rise above the mediocrity which is the lot of most men who have occasion to speak before an audience...