Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blake's appearance was handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation...
...young Yogi has already reached some degree of pratay ahara, control of the body's nerves. He can be seen around the Yard in the coldest weather without overcoat or sweater. His health is perfect and his mind is without a ripple...
Great men are of two different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
...opened with Yale fighting hard in Crimson territory and goalie Vint Freedley holding them off in brilliant style. Then as the Hoddermen's offensive started to get underway Harry Holt saved things for the Blue with two beautiful stops, one when Freddle DeRham and Dave Eaton set up a perfect play in front of his net and again when Win Jameson had a clear shot...
...perfect flowering of the giddy '20s, he arrived from Nevada with a small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular sally into prizefight promotion by himself trying to knock out Gene Tunney. He also turned a pretty penny floating and promoting mine stocks, climax of which was the forming in 1928 of an investment trust, Metal & Mining...