Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coolidge is a Vermonter, he ought to do the same thing. The trouble with him is that he's spoiled. Ever since that time when he refused his secretary a lily cup out of pure economy he's been no true son of Vermont, for we're not like that (cheers), honestly we're not. The mayor of my town has two suits of winter underwear--one for summer...
...Pure Science. Much Federal and State money is spent on applied science. But the raw material of applied science is pure science?research. The burden of pure science research is borne chiefly by colleges and universities. They need help. They will get help. The present ratios of ten to one in men and twenty to one in dollars for applied science compared to pure science constitutes a "challenge."?Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
...chops in a fur-eared cap; and, like Wilhelm II, is writing his autobiography. Recently, as one autobiographer to another, Poultney Bigelow reviewed the onetime Kaiser's latest work,* wrote of him as follows: "It was William II's good fortune to know in his youth only pure women and clean, brave, loyal, highly educated men. . . . The mob howls at the Kaiser as our people did at the President of the late Confederate States [Jefferson Davis]. . . Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same thing...
...holy flash of black struck at Negro Harlem last week, like a taffeta ribbon across a naughty face. Pagan blackamoors ceased their capers and their vices, to grace the passage of a band of Negro nuns, the Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, who, showing a quaint solemnity, were opening their new chapel to the Negroes...
...they do, by exquisite example, show the worth of life within the Faith. And, although the Negro "lot can on earth never be equal with those about them," still Negro boys can become Roman Catholic priests and Negro girls can join their special orders -the Handmaids of the Pure Heart of Mary, or the Oblate Sisters who do whatever work they may be told to do, or the Holy Family Sisters. It is not beyond theory that a Negro may become Pope, even though the Pope be chosen by weighty, ancient precedent. Moreover, not beyond fact is sainthood. There...