Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choral society serenaded the Morgan yacht, "they shocked Morgan very much by asking for money and they were rudely refused. It was not so much that he minded parting with money as that the request was a blow to the cherished illusion that everything was done out of pure admiration for his personality, just for his beaux yeux. I always wondered that his mistresses in New York got such substantial subsidies as they did. To man it is impossible but to Jews and Armenians and women...
...true that Mozart's music is characteristically "happy"; it is only true that there is something in his refined melodic line, in the "abstract" or "pure" form of his composition, which misleads one in that direction. Listen to the A-major piano concerto; to the first movement with its spacious calm and serenity; to the second, with its almost unberable poignancy, probably the nearest Mozart ever got to out-and-out lyricism; and then finally to the third movement, in the true sense of the word "happy," sparkling with fun and humor. Listen to any Mozart, and you will find...
...Post hoc ergo propter hoe" will be the cry this morning after the Battling Scribes of 14 Plympton Street, champions to these many years of the Inter-Journalistic Simon Pure Touch Football League, meet the lowly kittens of the Princetonian in the field of combat. All editors are requested to turn out for the game in Dave Colter's office at 10 o'clock...
...with words of comfort, and with acts which rekindle the hope of the other French people of France, of the other French people who are much more numerous than one suspects-all those who listen to the broadcasts of the BBC as if near a wide open window where pure air enters...
...there are collectors and "critics" today, who still insist that "it's gotta be old to be good." They speak in terms of "pure jazz" as opposed to "commercial swing," and have succeeded in making some people believe that the period from 1920 to 1935 had some intangible quality that gave jazz musicians an inspiration they just don't get these days. Some of them, in the throbs of an overdose of social-consciousness, insist that a musician played better jazz when he wasn't making any money. Today, the average musicians in the average name band gets at least...