Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond, Va., litigation brought to light a sentimental bequest which sounded as though it had been copied straight from a Civil War ballad. Valentine Browne Lawless, a soldier killed in Europe in 1944, had left $3,000 to provide "one perfect rose of any color to be sent each Saturday morning to the girl I love very dearly and whom I will love for the rest of my life...
...Faraway Farm, Ky. by next March, in time for Man o' War's 31st birthday party. He labored so long, he explained in Paris last week, because "It's not just a horse, it's Man o' War. I loved him best. A perfect gentleman, impeccable in conformation, beautiful yet not effeminate, with an eagle eye and a noble carriage. Yet I must say he was not without vanity. He'd be dozing in his stall and some visitors would arrive. He would rouse himself, get to his feet and give them that look...
...would take all of. Straight's enterprise and all of Sir Harold's science to get BOAC through the next five years. That is the estimated minimum time it will take the British aircraft industry to perfect the jet transports with which it hopes to surpass U.S. planes. Until then, BOAC will have to make do with obsolete, uneconomic transports, many of them converted bombers, and with intermediate new models now abuilding, such as the big Shetland flying boat (see cut). BOAC bought five Constellations, was about to get more when the Labor Government forbade it to spend...
...book does not rise to the stature of a great, or even a very good, novel, it at least does not try to show a great panorama of society, and fail. Everything investigated is seen thoroughly, in perfect focus, but there are definite limitations. Only half a dozen characters are seen, representing very little of society, though a good range of neuroticism. But the chief merit of the book lies in the fact that Sartre has put his story ahead of his theme, and whatever abstract ideas of Existentialism he has expressed, he has converted them into the concrete form...
...movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil. I don't go; I can't take the beating...