Word: puree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same thing would be written about the daughters of our American President while touring Albania, I am sure that the American Government would also consider it a pure insult...
...long pants, Poet Rukeyser succeeds, in The Book of the Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress...
Senator Bridges wanted to know why an investigating committee appointed by Vice President Garner would not be acceptable. Having already admitted that he thought Vice President Garner was "pure gold," Tennessee's McKellar tried a new trick: "I think some newspaper must have published a statement that the Senator from New Hampshire was a new Coolidge, and was a candidate for the Presidency, and it has gone to the Senator's head...
...brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist whom nobody laughed at, everybody liked and Londoners have become sentimental about...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...