Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of these boys, with perfect candor, have told me bluntly and boastfully that they practice the art of love with more perfection than white boys, and occasionally one of the girls has supplied me with information to the same effect. In fact some of the disclosures in this regard are perfectly startling in their nature." "Well," said Señor Paredes urbanely, "the Judge admits that Filipinos are great lovers...
...Norvegicus albinus, hordes of white rats are fed and pampered as carefully as princelings. For 96 generations the rats have breathed only pure and sterile air. Visitors who might bring in germs are shooed off. Eventually it is hoped that the animals will be wholly free of disease, a perfect race of rats. Meanwhile the price is $45 per hundred, f.o.b. Philadelphia...
...brilliant air of being above his fellows, a flash of some genius and heroism." To Nelson, Emma was a goddess: "He would never check her vulgarity, wince at her noisy voice, complain of her garish clothes, for he would never notice these defects. To him she was perfect; they were as easy in each other's company as the seaman after a long voyage was easy with the fat doxy waiting for him in the Wapping ale-house...
...direct action against the powerful Right coalition of Catholic Leader Gil Robles without inviting civil war. He did, however, espouse the theory that the month's violence had been the work of Rightist agents provocateurs trying to make the victorious Left look bad. Then suddenly he discovered the perfect goat-Fascism...
...piano and made sure that her brother was ready to begin. At 15, the second Menuhin prodigy has a talent that could take her far as a solo performer. Like Yehudi she plays with complete concentration, an obvious respect for the music at hand. Together the pair achieved a perfect balance of tone, penetrated the varying moods in sonatas by Brahms, Enesco, Franck, so impressed Arturo Toscanini that he sent word backstage asking for some Mozart as an encore...