Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pure Inventions." Lucky wore expensive clothes, changed them often. Headwaiters in the very best places welcomed him with deference. Italy's police estimated he was spending $50,000 a year, wondered where he got it. He had a small bakery and one or two other visible enterprises, but they brought in only a tiny fraction of what Lucky was spending...
Occasionally the police questioned Lucky. Said he: "If somebody slips on a banana peel, the cops call me in to find out if I'm selling bananas." Three months ago a police bigwig admitted that press charges against Luciano were "pure inventions." Lucky returned the compliment. "Italy has one of the best police forces in the world," said he, "and if they had anything on me, they'd arrest...
...Alger Hiss," he whispered huskily, "is a brilliant man. Everything he has ever done is pure, wholesome, clean, fine. Do you think that Alger Hiss would ... prostitute his great career . . . ? This isn't a case, it's an outrage...
...beard has also been under fire as "a hindrance to spitting and a disturbance to elocution," a symbol of animal lust and corruption, an impediment to gas masks, an affront to pure womanhood. Detractors of the beard might even argue that the shaven jowl is invaluable in time of war: e.g., the Saxons might have won the Battle of Hastings if they had not panicked at sight of the clean-shaven Norman army. (They concluded that it consisted entirely of "Presbyteros"-which is Latin for "priests," Author Reynolds hastily explains, "not Presbyterians-a fantasy far more terrifying...
...Pumas. Don Paco and Don Pepe always wear the classic skin-tight suits of Andalusian gentry when they ride out to see their stock, and the jingle of Spanish spurs accompanies them. The animals themselves represent La Punta's greatest tie to Spanish tradition. About 2,000 are pure-bred descendants of the big, black Parladé, of the noble bull blood of famed Vistahermosa farm, and his harem of 50 black Vistahermosa cows that the Madrazos brought from Spain...