Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates...
...Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images could be forgotten as it caught and reflected...
...complaint to be voiced. This time it is a smart suburban district festering from the flask infection on its young men's hips. These young people kiss each other a good deal. For these things they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking...
...such pure, understanding tact, observers thought, was finely typical of M. Chiappe. They recalled how he won fame (TIME, June 27) by his quiet, skillful arrest of Leon Daudet, editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved...
...wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...