Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less pretentious than most of the publicity about it, considerably less inspired than Author Damon Runyon's perfect name for its typical hero, the picture paves its lowly way with the good intentions of decent little people. Irony is implicit in the situation that brings two of them face to face with the President (played by Lewis Stone in his most complacent Judge Hardy manner...
...have at hand your issue of Dec. 25, in which you state . . . that President Roosevelt "selected especially perfect pines for Christmas gifts; sent 500 to the market...
...German censor proudly released the war's most perfect picture, taken by a U-boat commander, of a torpedoed freight er doing her last curtsy...
Skinny, hatchet-faced, homely and aware of it, Funnywoman Finch could move with a birdlike grace, was a perfect foil for elephantine, moon-faced Funnyman John Bunny. With him she appeared on miles of film...
...make architecture conform to the contours of the surrounding countryside. His expert handling of the floating cantilever principle in constructing the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo enabled that building to withstand the great earthquake of 1923. In short, the man has succeeded in combining grace and utility, those two perfect mates who are seldom seen together, in almost every building he has created...