Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accord. He pointedly told his press conference that he had not agreed with Chairman Doughton to put any taxes upon "little fellows": he had merely told Congress to write its own bill, promised that the Treasury would supply facts and figures, recommend nothing. Thus his political position was perfect: his Treasury would be replenished by new taxes, the "Share-the-Wealthers" would be silenced and Congress and the critics of his tax plan would have to bear the odium when millions of sub-millionaires protested...
Talleyrand? This nettled only the discomfited questioner. Soon the correspondents as a group were agreeing with the President's secretaries that in diplomacy he is very adroit, revels in doing "the smart thing," and would have made a perfect Ambassador in the great days of diplomacy, a sort of Talleyrand. The master stroke delivered by Talleyrand Roosevelt last week was to have the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires inform Emperor Power of Trinity that...
...show them a composed, orderly example ever. If a parent provides such a common sense environment for his child to grow up in. and if the child is kept well and cured of physical imperfections, then Dr. Kanner promises the child will naturally grow up to be a perfect, healthy little lady or gentleman...
...raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
...shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation...