Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON is unwilling to share Mr. Reynolds' optimism that his house is in perfect order. Consequently it suggests...
...assassin is the sensitive, thoughtful man who is incapable of compromise, who loves people "not for what they are but for what they will become." He is aware of his own inefficacy in a world he would have perfect. He is the impatient, compassionleas idealist who has lived to see his own bones go-into the making of bricks for a shrine to his avowed enemy...
Some of these requests are quite baffling. For instance, a Florida attorney wrote us not long ago to ask if he could reprint a story our Science editor had written about displaced rats. For reasons that seem highly emotional, the attorney figured that the story would be a perfect analogy for a treatise he was writing on "Present Tides Of Immigration From Other States Into Florida...
...Semple McPherson tipsy and took pictures. But she generally behaved like a duchess at society functions. An exception was one big masked ball, given for charity at Devonshire House, and attended by every socialite from the Duke of Kent down; some time during the evening Tallulah was seen turning perfect cartwheels around the room...
...this precision in the business of football does not make Art the perfect scientific man. He is, in fact, quite superstitious. He will not sit in a certain chair at the Monday morning Gridiron Club luncheon because he thinks it is a jinx. The last time he sat in it, his team ended up the week by losing to Connell, 40 to 6. He doesn't want pictures of the team taken in game uniforms--another jinx. He was even afraid this very article might be a jinx, until he was assured that a story on the rival coach, Herman...