Word: puree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opera. The one painting of a "Ballet Dancer" on display illustrates his characteristic treatment of this subject. The figure, which is light and graceful, wears a light blue dress with spots here and there of sheer color. It is ironic indeed that he envelopes the whole in a romantic, pure atmosphere, for the truth was the dancers as a whole lived a very immoral life and were often almost vicious in their vices. Another typical Degas painting is the race track scene "They're Off." Here everything is dark and stormy looking except for a spotlight of bright...
...Thorndike found it unnecessary to add that these emoluments are higher, on the whole, than those of distinguished scientists in universities and endowed institutions of pure science...
Prosecution by the Government, however, was limited to minor charges under the old 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Last week, in Eastern District Court of Tennes see, Dr. Massengill pleaded guilty to mislabeling his preparation an elixir (technically the word elixir implies solution of a drug in accepted a fine...
...England this has been standard practice for 20 years and has been generally successful, since well-chosen issues become "sticky" not because they are unsound investments but only because of sudden market upsets. A good U. S. example was last fall's Pure Oil issue, a sound enough investment which failed to sell because of a market crash. If its underwriters had been an investment trust they could have added the unsold bonds to their portfolio, thus saving their own skins and not impairing the investment trust...
...about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...