Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every item was perfect! . . . . Everything was delightful!" cried exuberant Professor William Lyon Phelps one night last week as he left Yale's Sprague Memorial Hall.* He had been listening to an "Old Timers' Concert" of the Yale Glee Club, reviving popular college songs of the century past. The Howard twins had rendered an 1867 overture, "Wooden Spoon Lancers." Tom Hewes, Class of 1910, had whistled "The Yellow Bird." Another gentleman had yodeled. Carl Lohmann, secretary of the University, had sung Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope...
...foster-father, George Arliss is to be preferred to Maurice Chevalier (see above) on several counts. Instead of sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different...
Occasionally a man is a course and a course is a man, and so wedded are the two that separation of them defies the greatest feats of imagination. So it is with German B. Without Dr. Herrick the tremendous scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule...
...last ten years by Dr. L. R. G. Crandon '94. Harvard professors have been members of various groups investigating the phenomena. "The question of whether or not the phenomena were supernatural or not depended on the degree of the observer's belief that control of the psychic was perfect," he said...
...plenty of pleasant experiences on the boards, though. During my first race in Berlin, for example, in 1914. I won a 'preme' and was presented with two gold cigarette cases by the Crown Prince who congratulated me in perfect English, and refused to let me bow to him. "That's all right. Mac' he said, 'save your energy for the race...