Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their hands were a score of new tools they had helped invent and perfect for just this purpose and moment. For at Munich-time (September 1938) Franklin Roosevelt told his administrators that never again must the U. S. be caught short, that plans must be drawn up to meet every predictable impact on the U. S. of a war abroad-measures to cushion the shock to the money-markets, to bring home U. S. nationals, to lay a firm foundation for the uncertainties of the future. Even proclamations were ready for the President's bold pen-stroke...
Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...
Small Beer, an aptly titled profusely illustrated collection of ten stories and sketches, is authentic Bemelmans brew. From his hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience...
...Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since he and his cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt went there in 1908 had he fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest known, excels all I have seen in my long experience. It is, in fact, the Adonis...
...Canton area, so near Hong Kong as to be a perfect base for attack, the Japanese are estimated to have 40,000 troops-as compared to an estimated 10,000 which Britain has based at Hong Kong. The odds are so long against them that the British command has already decided to abandon the Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles...