Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dewey's further racket strokes had been less spectacular and conclusive. He had kept his trial record perfect: 52 indictments, 52 convictions. Proceeding with extreme secrecy and caution, refusing to strike until he felt sure he had enough evidence to convict, he had made public beginnings against rackets in the trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches...
...Moscow. Without resorting to the hy- pothesis of such "confession gas,"Mr. Lyons mentions that the use of hostages (wives, children or others dear to the prisoners) is an old Soviet custom, and moreover that in Moscow the authorities have now had 20 full years in which to perfect their "third degree methods, familiar enough in all police systems"to "an extreme of refined cruelty...
...Since their products are now mainly in the hands of private collectors, the Index of Design has allotted them a whole portfolio, to preserve them for the public and the future. Furniture, costumes and textiles are shown here, in all their austere utility and straightness of lines, combined with perfect proportion...
Inflation means different things to different people-breadlines, bushel-basket currency, ballooning credit or simply whacking good times. Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony on one point: inflation means higher prices for all. Oddly enough, there was much more talk of inflation two or three years ago than there is today, when prices are mounting faster than at any time since the post-War "boom."' That "boom" in good measure was pure inflation brought on by War financing, and the subsequent collapse was highlighted by a terrific crash in commodity prices, just as the last depression...
...best champagne. When news of this episode reached one Clayton Glyn, an eligible socialite old bachelor, he made up his mind that Elinor was the girl for him. She had not pictured Romance with silver hair (Glyn's was prematurely grey), but she admired his worldy ways, his perfect teeth, his "quaintly arrogant point of view." And she was 27. They married...