Word: pluperfectly
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...because of its past pluperfect grade performance and present eccentricity, most interest centred last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news...
Mitsui clerks rushed to help the Mitsui doorman carry him into No. 1. Doctors arrived. Just 30 minutes after the bullet was fired, Takuma Dan died. He was one of only four Japanese peers created by the present Emperor as part of his coronation ceremonies, a pluperfect honor...
Even better than the Tiger, the Chief of Police of Paris knows the value of a perfect valet. Monsieur Jean Chiappe, like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen, is sartorially pluperfect. He appears at inquests in a cutaway, dashes to the scene of midnight murders in a white tie. It was a beau geste when Chief Chiappe gave Clémenceau Valet Albert employment last week, not as a valet but as a special inspector of police. People who remember that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore...
...have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions in the pluperfect tense.-And though she declares Jean Borotra well-named the "Bounding Basque," Betty Nuthall one of the best liked visitors we ever had, Señorita de Alvarez the most fascinating figure of the courts, this is as far as she betrays the inside knowledge she must have...
...Story.* Easy-going Pa Bowers, a Minnesota farmer, was always having to sell more land to his wealthy neighbors, the Carews, in order to meet last month's bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew...