Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make jobs for themselves and others. . . . Now I take it that we Americans lived that way because we wanted to live that way. We still like it better than any other way. We know there are wrongs to right. Only the misguided will claim that this system is perfect. . . . The record proves, however, that our system gives the most personal liberty to human beings and offers on the whole the highest possible standard of life to the greatest numbers...
...Private Aid?" In perfect agony at Paris all week was new Premier Blum, as French politics split wide open into factions, respectively, for the Spanish Government and for the Spanish Revolution...
Judge Knight's only further interest in the case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite...
Just three months old, the twin-motored, ten-passenger Lockheed-Electra City of Memphis was on its regular run from New Orleans to Chicago, Chicago & Southern Air-Lines' sole route. At St. Louis, motors and controls were examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime...
...Astor's No. 1 partner-in-sin. Browsing through Miss Astor's diary, the doctor's lawyers said they found that she had recorded experiencing a "thrilling ecstasy" in the company of George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Once in a Lifetime). "He fits me perfectly," stated Miss Astor, recalling, "many exquisite moments . . . twenty-count them, diary, twenty. . . . I don't see how he does it... he is perfect." In October 1935, Actress Astor admitted on the stand, she had telephoned Mr. Kaufman, whom she had not met, from a Manhattan saloon, asked...