Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall Ellis M. Zacharias, a Navy captain with a flair for the unorthodox, was one of the first skippers to go after the Japs, ended up as an intelligence officer, making highly effective propaganda broadcasts in near-perfect Japanese. Last week he showed up in a particularly unorthodox light-the Pearl Harbor Committee discovered that here was one Navy man who had been 100% right about the time and place of the attack...
Otherwise the picture is the same as the play. The jokes are the same, but they have lost some of the effect that perfect timing gives to a good stage gag. The individuals are mostly up to par, with newcomer Conrad Janis filling the sergeant's shoes quite competently and with the late Bob Benchley suffering nobly as the harassed father. What is most lacking from the current version, however, is that peculiar quality of perpetual excitement and continual building-up of complicated entanglements that makes any farce a successful production...
...that "there are no good Germans." For five months he had blocked the marriage of his fellow townsman, swart Achille Nicolo, who had also returned from German captivity, with a German bride-to-be. But the Mayor could carry obstruction no further. The papers of the couple were in perfect order. The Department Subprefect had warned him that he must perform the ceremony...
...German shepherd who became a violinist and a violin-maker. He started Fritz at the piano and Adolf on a violin when each was four. "We made music all day, from eight in the morning until midnight," says Fritz. Papa Busch concluded proudly that both Fritz and Adolf had perfect pitch when they identified a locomotive's whistle as F sharp...
...diminishing returns. Over the years more & more chemicals are needed to do the same job. Two arsenical washes once controlled the coding moth on apple trees; now five to seven are needed in the same orchards. Four years ago tartar emetic was hailed as the new and perfect control for citrus thrips in California. Within two years a more hardy variety of thrips appeared and tartar emetic ceased to work. Dr. Wigglesworth suspects that even powerful DDT may begin to need some extra strength one of these days...