Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Devil to Pay (Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake...
...Academy in Manhattan last week Greenleaf and Rudolph, with the crowd banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls...
...left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself on her absent and unfaithful husband. Baerlein was a perfect gentleman. Philosophical, he took everything as it came, let it go the same...
...Austria the Fascist party (Heim-wehr) of Prince Ernst Rudiger von Star-hernberg, trounced at the last election (TIME, Nov. 17), failed last week to make good their threat to seize the State by armed power. Amid perfect calm Dr. Otto Ender, one more henchman of Austrian boss-politician Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, assumed the Chancellorship. He did not reappoint sword-rattling Prince von Starhemberg to His Highness' former post of Minister of Interior, appointed no Fascist whatever...
...field in five minutes at 130. Not to be outdone by the Michigan band who had spelled out "Hello Harvard", in those five minutes the members of the band learned their position for a "Welcome" and went on the field on scheduled time spelling out a perfect "Welcome" to the Michigan stands...