Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement concluding TIME'S article-"Such matters [used v. new barrels] are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks"-is nearly as irrelevant as saying that gin producers prefer not to age in barrels...
...hold no brief for Kentucky bourbon distillers as such, but I assure you that . . . the choice of cooperage is not pure custom but is of fundamental importance...
...investigators swarmed in to ask him questions. Mickey was impatient. "They want me to sit here and lie-just to make it look like they're getting somewhere. Well, I don't lie. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lead a real pure life...
Concerned also for their thriving business in new barrels, Kentuckians threatened to legislate their own state definition of aged whisky if the ruling stood. Such matters are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks...
...Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind...