Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon's latest lapse from virtue, can now introduce the paper without hesitation to their clients in the sensitive rural communities of New Jersey. President Fawcett and Ibis Jones' are little Dutch girls. They chase dirt. They are obviously leading an earnest crusade to make the Lampoon as pure and respectable as it was in its age of innocence...
...player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics. As one who has (in 1906) worked in the upper reaches of differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase...
...Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell...
Examples of pure community self-expression, without fruits of creation, are the Dallas Little Theatre, strictly amateur, celebrated for its capture of the Belasco Cup for one-act productions the past three years; and the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where what counts is the number of citizens performing. The Boston Repertory, strictly professional, is an opposite type-a non-profit-making institution with a permanent staff and inveterate audience...
More advertisements re-whetted jaded appetites in 1926 and 1927 -"DANCE MAGIC, Jahala the beautiful" ... "Will Every Marriage End in Divorce Within Eleven Years?" . . . "Must the American Theatre be Salacious to Live?" ... "What a Nice Girl Can Do." . . . But still the contents remained comparatively pure and the circulation grew...