Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Nelson Trusler Johnson, energetic new U. S. Minister to China, arrived in Peiping, gave foreign correspondents the shock of their lives by delivering a long fluent speech in perfect Chinese...
Farrar's life is the perfect counterpart of her leisurely career.* She has an apartment in Manhattan, is often seen at concerts, the theatre, the Metropolitan which she now likens to a Ford establishment. The warm months she spends at Ridgefield, Conn., plays wholeheartedly the role of country gentlewoman. She motors, gardens, keeps a bird refuge, admires the neighbors' babies. Everyday at luncheon she entertains her father, Sidney ("Sid") Farrar, onetime professional baseballer and her neighbor. If the day is hot, re- gardless of other guests Father Farrar comes as he is most comfortable...
...platform of 17 changes towards "the improvement of the general situation." It recommended (9): "that the honor system be redeemed by taking from its jurisdiction the sobriety of students at dances, and other responsibilities which are without its scope and which have an unhealthy influence on a once perfect system...
Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...
...under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin's mausoleum but none has been forthcoming. All that time I have worked to improve the original design. ... I made hundreds of' sketches, plans and colored drawings showing how the tombs would harmonize with the ancient kremlin wall behind it in color, shape and line...