Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot House Grill is a place of rich, savory odors, the perfect spot to let the day's learning settle along with something else a little more concrete. But all those who are more than occasional frequenters must have noticed certain strong, sporadic smells that pervade the place now and then, and raise speculations in the minds of the more imaginative epicures as to whether the hamburgers take perhaps a pinch of the traditional ingredient, goat's dung...
Said Hotelman Pani: "We changed the paintings with our own hands as we had a perfect right to do." At week's end the murals came down entirely, mirrors took their place...
...change in Dietrich was astounding, that which took place in von Sternberg, though less evident, is no less interesting. The girl whom he had turned in record time into a world celebrity had paradoxically trebled his own fame. She was a perfect Trilby for his staccato, 14-hour-a-day Svengali. Impatient of routine, abrupt with strangers and remote with studio officials, Dietrich would tolerate the most brutal type of public correction from von Sternberg. It was common enough for her to go through a scene 15 or 16 times before he was satisfied with it. None of this seemed...
Thus lined up was a perfect example of a legal situation familiar in every state. Many a motorist has refused a ride to a hitch-hiker for fear of being liable for damages which might occur to him. Many another driver whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend...
...under Sir Robert Walpole's administration is still regarded by social historians, as it was then by the Whig poets, as England's happiest age. The national min, always dominantly utilitarian, surveyed with satisfaction the concrete results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing throng of foes, than as an enlightened national financier. Professor...