Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fail to report the buildings are beautiful, the architecture authentic, the setting unique and exotic. The trees, flowers and the climate are perfect. It may not be the largest exposition, but what there is of it is all there and with no false fronts...
Thus Stanley Baldwin, himself a perfect John Bull in physical and mental makeup, announced as his program the Pax Britannica. In another fling at dictators, careless of enraging Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, the Prime Minister declared: "Dictators cannot gauge the currents of public opinion because public opinion and a dictatorship are self-contradictory. . . . You saw how quickly a dictatorship could move in the development of the German air force and in the swiftness with which the Ethiopian situation has arisen [see p. 16]. . . . Things like these make it more necessary that there should be stability. . . . Our stability is necessary...
...sales talk to prospective passengers was that its trains had been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...
...Caliente (Warner). The outstanding virtue of this piece is a complete, complacent lunacy which will at once endear it to all cinemaddicts who have given up hope of finding a new kind of musical. It is not really about anything and nothing happens-a practically perfect formula. The set-up is Edward Everett Horton, Dolores Del Rio and Pat O'Brien, behaving with notable insincerity among a lot of puzzling yellow stuff which O'Brien finds to be Mexican sunlight. There are two menaces. One is a blonde (Glenda Farrell) who wants to marry O'Brien...
...Yonkers, N. Y., John Carpenter Jr., II, found a perfect place to hide from his 6-year-old sister in a game of hide-&-seek. In a vacant apartment across the hall he had found an abandoned icebox, removed the shelves and climbed in, slamming the door behind him. On the outside, the strong snap-lock fell into place. John was surrounded on six sides by unbroken zinc. Police of five states searched a day for him. Then John Carpenter Sr. found the grimy mark of a boy's hand on the icebox door, his son's suffocated...