Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...53rd Street with the lumberyard behind. But if Mr. Junge has not talked, the First Ladies and their programs have. The first Mrs. Wilson and Margaret, who had a pretty voice, took great pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...
...real ability at all, or are well-known stage people who have become lazy and greedy of money. They see an opportunity of doing a minimum of work and they immediately take it. They see the advantage of the continual retakes; their acting does not always have to be perfect. No, I do not believe the motion picture ever has really threatened to displace the stage, or ever will...
...person devoid of ability cannot be taught to act. There must be some talent present, and the only way to bring it out, and to perfect it, is to get experience; such, for example, as that offered in school and college dramatics. I know that the first time that I really began to act was one evening, three years after I had taken up the stage. I was playing in a light, romantic comedy. Suddenly I heard the audience laughing, and realized that what I was saying, and the way in which I was saying it was making them laugh...
...does is teach grammar, prescribe a number of books, and include some conversation in the daily lesson. Of course, the grammar taught is standard and the books read are classics. The argument is that if one is to learn a language, he might as well know it in its perfect form. However, this method of teaching deprives the student of much of the color and life of a language. The classical prose and poetry is, in spite of its sometimes artificial form, usually worth reading for its beauty. But, by confinement to such works, the student may get an unnatural...
Rache had her day, Sunday; and yesterday while Der Marschall und Der Gefreite were wreathed in smiles and the granulation of a subservient Press, the remainder of a worried world hastened to assess the importance of a statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding...