Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is also the Bell Telephone Laboratories which is supported by the different operating Companies, and which does the experimental work in both pure and applied science that is necessary to develop and perfect the different parts of the Company's apparatus...
...anomaly of transvestism consists in the desire for cross-dressing. . . . Transvestism is a sexo-esthetic inversion of pure artistic imitation. . . . It occurs mostly in persons endowed with a highly developed artistic taste?TRANSVESTISM?Bernard S. Talmey...
...Aged two, Joan could stagger across the deck and yell "goddamned wind" (picked up from the mate). She thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from an island of seaweed. Joan tried desperately to scoop...
...pure amusement this film ranks high, as an all-talking, even higher, but in comparison with the best products of the old "silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
...shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression of a short-skirted girl-a picture of a leg superimposed upon the dim image of a face. There is nothing documentary about Stieglitz photographs; they tell no stories, perpetuate no events. They are studies in pure form and tone...