Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still the fact that a man saved all his money on The Rock. And the friendly weather belied the old adage that the only perfect climate is bed. After life got stabilized, the men got five-day furloughs every three months in the fleshpots of Panama...
...peanut-vendor, confidential agent and Minister of War in Groucho's parlor cabinet, shows the verve and talent for pantomime that has, in later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there was some compensation in money-maker Leo McCarey's direction...
Clementine Churchill got an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from Oxford. She also got some sympathy for being Winston's wife. "He forgets there is a time for meals," observed Oxford's Public Orator, in Latin, "besides he is a perfect volcano, scattering cigar ashes all over the house (totas aedes Coronarum Coronarum favillis conspergi...
Much more recognizable, and more fascinating to gallery gossips, was the picture reproduced on the cover of the show's catalogue, an unassuming but perfect etching of 64-year-old Picasso's new girl: the mysterious 19-year-old brunette who is rumored to be the daughter of his concierge. Judging by the picture, she had the classical, wide-eyed face of a Leda, and the neck of a swan...
Francis Barton Gummere, Haverford's English scholar (remembered by Christopher Morley): "As far as the battle of learning goes, we were pacifists-conscientious objectors. . . . It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit. . . . To fail him in some task [became] the one thing most abhorrent in dealing with such a man-a discourtesy...