Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort or another, and everybody but the hero is completely exposed. This latter I felt, would have been exposed if he had dared stick his face on the stage, again. The satire on the Balkans is no longer potent, but what it loses as satire it gains as pure humor; so the audience is always the winner...
...forth what he intended to do about the machinations of world capital, last week, he concluded his address amid cheers with the pious assurance that world communism will somehow triumph in the end. No fool, M. Stalin was apparently engaged last week in ingratiating himself with the "pure" Communists to whom he is something of a heretic, however potent. The way seemed clear to introduce before the conference a program of action skilfully masking the "conservative" policies of "Boss" Stalin behind a screen of fervent Leninist oratory...
...deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs for the neighborhood urchins; kept Harvard boys out of scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school, hospital. The saccharine type of "the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood," for which she was the unwilling inspiration, would have been aghast, as another generation is reassured, by the tart honesty of her journal: "I'm selfish. I want to go away and rest in Europe. Never shall...
...British Parliament, was likewise debarred. And another Countess--in her own eyes more sinned against than sinning--discovered that on occasion moral turpitude could be made an admirable slogan for immigration authorities. The latest guest unwelcome to official United States is Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, whose morals may be as pure as snow but whose politics are not a accordance with those of the Republican administration. In spite of the fact that she does not propose to linger here being on her way to take up her duties as Soviet Minister to Mexico--Secretary Kellog has denied her admittance in accordance...
...down to what you all are most interest in I myself, was born in Shemokin, Pa., just before the Panic of 1893 (this was pure coincidence), of poor but honest parents. (Father was poor and mother was honest). We were, in fact, so poor that for economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful...