Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Font's Dr. Crawford H. Greene-wait: pure speculation -perhaps three years, perhaps ten, perhaps longer...
...spirit of the Gospels was not handed down in a pure state from one Christian generation to the next. To undergo suffering and death joyfully was from the very beginning considered a sign of grace in the Christian martyrs-as though grace could do more for a human being than it could for Christ. Those who believe that God himself, once he became man, could not face the harshness of destiny without a long tremor of anguish, should have understood that the only people who can give the impression of having risen to a higher plane, who seem superior...
...once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck said what the hell, he'd see me." He asked tart old H. L. Mencken at the Stork Club...
...would leave Sidney Wooderson's 4:04.2 as the mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...