Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Lansbury, Laborite Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
Alma Mater had a worthy performance. All the dancers made sure, swift pictures, designed by George Balanchine, the crack Russian choreographer whom the young sponsors imported. But critical members of the Hartford audience agreed that Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein needed more time to perfect their dream of a perfect ballet. Undistinguished dancers can frolic in a burlesque like Alma Mater. But earlier in the same evening a more conventional and exacting Mozartiana made it apparent that a year is not long enough to build up a technic comparable to that of the long-trained Russians...
...could speak Playwright Anderson's semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale is close to perfect. Mr. Merivale is the greatest cloak-swinger on the U. S. stage. He swung one in The Road to Rome (1927-28). He swung another in Death Takes a Holiday (1930-31). He swung a third in Mary of Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones...
...spring of 1787 George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and 52 other distinguished revolutionists gathered in Philadelphia to found a more perfect Union. Out of that long, sultry summer's work there was evolved a notable document scrupulously delimiting the powers and prerogatives of a proposed Federal Government. To Congress was granted right to tax, to provide for the common defense, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes," to coin money, issue patents, hang pirates. Subsequently attached to the original Constitution was a Bill of Rights which ended thus: "The powers...
...system, as a system, is practically perfect, but the day when education can be imparted exclusively by a system has not yet arrived. An established framework is a necessity to every well organized course but it should have enough apertures to allow the student to get a view of the whole field which the course is supposed to cover...