Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...
Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
Said a SCAP official last week to TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans: "It's pure speculation, but it's my guess that when MacArthur announces his departure you can look for an announcement that Hirohito has stepped out-or when you hear that Akihito has become Emperor you'll hear of MacArthur's leaving." Other Tokyo observers speculated that an abdication might be timed to coincide with "the end of the occupation...
...pompous way," smiles Joe, "I conceived ours as a column of information -halfway between pure opinion and what is essentially gossip. I felt there had been no formula for the use of material in this area as news or opinion...
...that used to be best about the best Disney movies are now so emphatically good that they verge on mere blatancy; the old weaknesses have grown a hundred times their old size. The draftsmanship is becoming rigid and frigid in a kind of gift-shoppe stylization. The outbursts of pure energy, though more restrained than in The Three Caballeros, still seem touched with homicidal mania. Nearly every attempt at cuteness, sweetness, tenderness, sublimity, results in one or another kind of painful simper. There is a frequent, unscrupulous alternation between the dreamy shimmer and the bang on the snoot...