Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heaviest hitter of the day was Bacon who caught hold of two Ingalls pitches for a perfect day at the play. Lupien, in his second day of practice after the basketball season, didn't have his usual eye, but did beat out a bunt. Johns...
...making saves. If one of his teammates makes a slip, it is too bad, but if a goalie makes a slip, it is a score against him and his team. Target of whizzing pucks, he must be nimble as a squirrel, sharp-eyed as a hawk. And since a perfect performance for him is a shutout, he works for naught on the scoreboard...
...What President Roosevelt called "a perfect stand of Cossack alfalfa" on his Georgia farm, was grown from seed raised by a Jewish seedsman...
...question of whether Radcliffites would prefer a "perfect 34" or a Phi Beta Kappa key, answers said, "what, flatchested? I'd rather be a perfect 36!' and "This question is silly because I am a perfect 34 and I expect a Phi Beta Kappa key next year...
...comment need be made on a work which Rossini considered representative of "the perfect balance between science and genius," and so we pass over "Don Giovanni" to consider "Der Rosenkavalier." This opera combines expertly three phases of Strauss's genius, his dramatic flare in the overture, many a charming Vicnneso waltz and pure Mozart-like melodies. The trio for female voices, which foreshadows the duet for soprano and alto in "Arabella," has been ranked with the famous quintet from Wagner's "Dic Meistersinger." And the entrance of the Rosenkavalier in the second act, clad all in white...