Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn Senator LaFollette's third ticket plan from a Farmer-Labor combination to a pure Labor movement. The kind of progressivism that the farmers want is that which brings progress in the form of better prices for their grain and livestock. Just at present, it appears as if they would get it without Mr. LaFollette's intervention...
Before Olvany there were five bosses of Tammany. Previously Tammany had been what it still calls itself, a "Society." The first of the bosses made himself Dictator. After him the others were Emperors pure and simple. Their careers and characteristics were well summarized by Samuel McCoy...
...intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar of dramatic agony. Some have called him "the thunderer of the Revolution," others, "a demagogue, pure and simple...
...lends itself to such palpable imitation of Nature. At present, one Mrs. Calcott of London is experimenting with a new method in wax. "She does not try to make her miniature's lifelike and for that reason is more artistic. . . ." She says of her process that she uses pure White beeswax and melts the color into it. To a large extent she makes her portraits by taking casts of a clay or wax model, particularly because it would be so difficult to keep wax clean in London. Each color must be cast separately, the parts afterwards joined up with...
...resignation of its functions to a committee. But as all legislative bodies learn, sooner or later, so this Democratic Convention has learned that business has to be done in committee, if one wants secrecy and dispatch, and then merely be ratified afterward on the floor . . . Once more pure democracy, or the form of pure democracy, which always is the cloak for some sort of oligarchy, had been replaced by representative government where the oligarchy could frankly function in the open with the body of electors reserving the right to veto its decision...