Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which toured for four years. In this vehicle he played six different roles in rapid succession, wearing Paris gowns that were the envy of his female audience, strapping his 210 Ib. and 46-in. waist to a ghostly corseted 24 in., singing popular tunes in an impeccably pure falsetto...
...recent years, TNEC revealed, 96.6% of all glassware made in the U. S. has come from machines owned or licensed by Owens-Illinois and Hartford-Empire. Of three independent companies making the other 3.4%, two were being sued by Hartford-Empire for patent infringement. A patent holding company pure & simple,'Hartford-Empire merely licensed its patents or rented its machinery, made nothing but money (67.77% on the $2,870,000 capital employed in 1937 operations...
...evangelist's dire threat of Hell and glowing promise of the Pearly Gates. It may be that it has succeeded in finding the spirit of the Negro more truly than ever before; if it is has at all fallen short of this ideal, it suffers none as pure entertainment. It's worth pawing your roommate's dress clothes and flunking an hour exam to see "Cabin...
More than pure educational theory is brought up in the meetings, since the economic question of teacher supply was recently the subject of a heated debate in which an executive of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Association took part...
Nancy Waite sang the part of Venus last night with great dignity and assurance and with a beautifully pure, cultivated voice. John Darr played Adonis capably; Miriam Silverman played the role of Cupid with much verve. The orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Holmes and assisted at the harpsichord by Claude Chiasson, performed valiantly throughout, and the music, characteristically Restoration in its use of dissonance and minor modulations, came out excellently. Lastly the dances designed by Miss Katherine Schroeder and executed by the Radcliffe Ballet, lent a colorful and decorative setting to the performance...