Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfection in pure, beaten pewter is one of the hallmarks of EVANS INTERNATIONAL, at 61 Church. The flask and mug above provide for the drinking man at home and away. Either can be engraved or fitted with the Harvard seal. The flask is priced...
...Quiet House," Paul Goodman tried to create a mood piece of an artist, disgusted by the world, but not willing to forgo it for simple, pure art. He builds the fantasy around a legend, implied, and a ghost, who appears. The first line began the general confusion. "Once there was 'a Chinese emporer, who never died because he never lived," said Allyn Moss, the one-woman chorus. This prepared the audience for a highly symbolic piece with the result that it tried to read a deep meaning into every line and missed the mood, only weakly created by the actors...
Even before the official recognition of the Canadian Kennel Club, the Little River dogs had developed into essentially a "pure" breed. They had been mated only with their own type for generations. Now the standard Nova Scotia tolling dogs are about 18 inches high, have thick, high-riding tails, and are the color of a red fox. Beneath their silky coat is an undercoat that makes their fur almost water-repellent. Brought up in most cases among the domesticated ducks of Yarmouth County's farms, they seldom lose control while tolling. They never bark before a shot is fired...
When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
...picked up by an architect atop the Empire State Building. They subsequently go to his apartment, where they are joined by an amiable but immoral neighbor (played by Hiram Sherman with a fraudulent Southern accent) living in an upstairs suite. From there on the presence of the naive and pure young lady in such worldly surroundings is situation enough for Mr. Herbert to spin a clever and funny play which never sags because of its witty conversation...