Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah sins against the omnipotent...
...altogether perfect, George Brush had once, beset by a girl in a barn, sinned. Thereafter he regarded himself as married, sought her everywhere. When he found her again she was a waitress in Kansas City and not glad to see him, but he wore down her resistance, married her. His great ambition was to have a fine American home. But experience, domestic and otherwise, gradually undermined George Brush's faith that he could get better and better until he was perfect. He lost his faith, his health, nearly died. But he was a strong young man. He recovered...
Each year with the exception of the time that the Cadets scored their triumph, the Harvard team comes to the Yale meet with its record unblemished. It's discouraging to contemplate the regularity with which the Elis have destroyed a perfect season. But those in the know seem to think that Yale's domination is waning and point to the closer H-Y scores as an Indication that the Crimson will yet be the ruin of the Blue...
...rejoiced that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...
...PERFECT ALIBI-C. St. John Sprigg -Crime Club ($2). All suspects have alibis when the armament king is murdered. Best are those of killer and victim, which are pierced when a smart young reporter helps the police. Jekyll-and-Hyde motif...