Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-dominated European capital a newly appointed minister was interviewing two applicants for a job. Each claimed a simon-pure record in the party. "Look here," boasted Boris, "I've been to Moscow three times. I've been a party member for 26 years and I've read every word that Karl Marx ever wrote." "That's nothing," crowed Nikolai, "I was a Resistance leader. I fought in the underground. I have a signed letter from Lenin, and I've been a party member since the day I was born...
...dove has to pure white," McKee explained, "and it's better if it is a stormy night," Drawing their information from a collection of books cached away in Widener Library, they felt they could settle a whole slew of metaphysical questions with one crucial test...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dismissed the Soviet constitution as merely "of pure propaganda significance," got a lofty consider-the-source retort from Izvestia: "Can a fly eclipse...
...they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
...Harvard Yale movie at the New Lecture Hall three-fourth full of people last night, and made many morning papers of November 30 look sick in the bargain. It appeared very blatantly that a quick reshuffling of accolades is necessary before this H-Y can be reduced to pure history...