Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...smuggling into one Border Patrol under the Coast Guard. ... It is not to be expected that any criminal law will ever be fully enforced as long as criminals exist. . . . The District of Columbia should be the model of city law enforcement in the nation. Conditions here ... are far from perfect...
...Fortnightly, for many years, the Syndicate has given "sights" or options on packets of assorted diamonds. Buyers have inspected the packets for "loupe-clean" diamonds?diamonds perfect under the jeweler's magnifying glass?have taken the "sights," have always redeemed them later in justified fear of syndicate displeasure...
After being scored on by a long pass, Grubbs and Green of Texas Christian marched as to war against Southern Methodist. The 7-7 tie was enough to make the Christians champions of the southwest on their record. Utah's Rocky Mountaineers, winners in their conference, finished a perfect season by tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore...
Alhough most of the interest in the Dramatic Club is relative to the production of "Success", the presentation of the "Hessian Play" occupies a place of importance in the minds of Dramatic Club officials. No pains will be spared in achieving as perfect a performance as possible of the annual miracle play. In order to furnish an appropriately finished musical background for the miracle play the Dramatic Club announces that it will hold trials, today, in Holden Chapel, for singers who wish to participate...