Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...register of many a Euro pean hotel a column is still provided for "Remarks." Therein occasional goaded Britons will note, "No jam, muffins poor." But in general the jottings are of a honeyed tone: "The water here is as pure as in Akron"; "Perfect service, splendid view"; "I had a real hot bath...
...there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced to the universal cult of the piano; this mechanical pattering . . . a hopeless jumble of misdirected energy. . . . There is nothing more laughable than to read a modern explanatory concert program . . . debasement...
...respects, accompanied by Minister Bryn of Norway; Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who requested that Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines should have his leave of absence extended another year. (General Butler has already had two years' leave of absence for the purpose of making Philadelphia pure by acting as head of city police. In renewing General Butler's leave last year, the President indicated that this year he would have to return to his job with the Marines...
...State Department would have seen to that. Realizing that the female of the species can create commotion too communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
Tremont--"Seventh Heaven" at 8.15: Good and pure...