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Word: pureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stokes, in return helped her "as friend and counsellor" to break the will of her late husband, Hotelman W. E. D. Stokes. Said the disbarring judge: "By taking fees while judge, he was false to his oath both as a judicial officer and as an attorney." Said Jurist Lindsey: "Pure malice of political enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Benjamin Disbarred Lindsey | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Personally I have never been approached by anyone who is disseminating this so-called Fascist propaganda, nor have those Italian-American acquaintances of mine who are violently anti-Fascist ever complained to me that the Black Shirts are attempting to overthrow or degrade the pure ideals cherished by Mr. Cohen and his American associates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red and Black | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...current investment rate to deserving but needy students. The sum of a half million dollars has already been awarded, with character as the sole collateral, and the results have been so gratifying that the administrators of the fund are well justified in stating that the practice has changed from pure philanthropy into a sound investment for banking institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SILVER LINING | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

...flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus in the other, each embodying different aspects of love; nearly pure, therefore undeluded, but quite inefficient, in the first; pitying in the second; possessive in the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedian | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Until he was 38 he practiced medicine. Then he began publishing poetry, much of it experimenting in Classical metre.* In 1913, aged 69, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Premier Asquith, succeeding Laureate Alfred Austin. Laureate Bridges is a founder of the Society for Pure English, serves as arbiter of pronunciation in British radio broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate Testifies | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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