Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...28/100% Pure...
...only candidates allowed to run. Rejection of the slate? which no one for a moment believed remotely possible?would have meant simply the holding of a new election. Statistics often lie, but last week's election statistics prove that those Italians who went to the polls are 98 28/100% pure endorsers of the Duce?a record eclipsed in the U. S. only by Ivory Soap, 99 44/100% pure...
...plays are staged, and their faults practically demonstrated. Plays which are this found worthy of public production may be staged again by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which each year-offers one long play and three one-act plays by student authors. The productions of the 'Workshop' have ranged from pure pantomime to the deepest psychological studies, and a single Dramatic Club bill may include a verse drama and a modern social play. To the student of practical play writing, the value of such an experimental theatre as the 'Forty-seven Workshop' is immense...
Timorous Christians had best not probe too deeply into Christian ritual. The flames of Christian candles may blend weirdly with druid fires. Behind a pure-throated Christian anthem may pipe the skirling music of an impish Pan. Mithras, the Persian sun god and onetime idol of the Roman army, was born on Dec. 25. The Easter egg was symbolic before the Christian Easter, symbolic of fertility...
...effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March 11), in which he promised to find work for virtually all of Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed-and this without increasing taxes! Though the speech was branded at once as pure demagogy by disinterested editors throughout the U.S. and Europe, the London stock exchange figures coldly suggested, last week, that Welsh David had made a big killing of prospective votes...