Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily assures Delilah: "I won't need it. He's a young lion...
...With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...
...purpose of the RCA Scholarship grants is to aid 'deserving students of outstanding ability" who are concentrating in any field of the pure sciences or in various branches of engineering...
...whose team had walloped Chicago, 61-0: "Not everybody can develop a physique like Sir Galahad's by lying down." In a snappy reply, Hutchins reminded Bingham that "Sir Galahad was not noted for his physique; his strength was as the strength of ten because his heart was pure...
...alarming spectacle, he continues, to find scholars who have a genuine devotion to some "pure" subject (medieval art, for example) hounded by the feeling that they must pay the price for their "wicked self-indulgence" by participating in a "useful activity" which they may find distasteful. "Unless people do what they do because they like doing it, the results of their work are sterile...