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Word: pureness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...want to get a real line on how surely ninety percent of the so-called dramatic criticism in this town has become a matter of pure personal likes and dislikes go to the Hudson Theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Guardia: "No. I do not yield to the gentleman from Florida. Florida is so happily situated near the West Indies that you can get all the pure liquor you want and it is hypocritical to take any stand as to law enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Representative Debate | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Electioneering. With the matter of those to be tried thus disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Young Alsace' | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a poor woman became a rich woman but not a pure woman and nearly went to the electric chair for it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into everyone's business. Frank Sutton's secretary, who seems to know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cops and Robbers | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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