Word: purely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy, based on the incident at Mâcon, but in nowise aimed at les Docteurs Denis," cried Defendant Mirande. The entire Macon Tribunal traveled 45 miles to Lyon, viewed Une Petite Fortune, and last week acquitted Yves Mirande...
...whose members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...
Jolly, champagne-bibbing General Peñaranda is an almost pure-blooded Indian. He is personally so democratic that La Paz expects him now to marry his half-breed chola, a charming lady who should make it fun to go to parties at the Bolivian White House...
...industrial designer, the important thing is to make the design of his gadgets fit their purpose (see col. 1). Pure artists have no purpose that fits anything in particular; all they want is to get into paint and stone their own, sometimes highly individual view of the world around them. Purest of today's pure artists are the abstractionists, who break up what they see into geometric designs, and surrealists, who try to put nightmares and nervous breakdowns on canvas. Pure Philistines hopefully call both these schools screwball art. Last week Manhattanites got a good look...
...least twice a month for 15 years, Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...