Word: purer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader, that Kerouac lost his own bearings so often: amusingly drunken cafe brawls, busted suitcases tied up with neckties, lost planes, overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll my r's on my tongue and not in my throat." For that coup alone he deserves a barony...
...ever purer than Adhemar de Barros. His jutting profile, immense belly, and expansive grandstand manner were pure Falstaff. His snake-charming baritone and God-fearing homilies were pure medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's greatest industrial state, was pure Tammany. He once fled the country to escape a jail sentence for misappropriating public funds, and he seemed almost proud to be known as the politician who "builds while he steals...
...ticked off quite a list of sinners inhabiting his native land: "The beatnik, the rebellious youth, the price-rigging executive, the draft-card burner, the pregnant high school girl, the dope addict, the bribed athlete" and a host of others. Behold, things didn't look any purer to Billy when he arrived in London to begin a month-long crusade. "To read the papers and magazines, you would think that we were almost worshiping the female bosom," he said at a news conference. "The danger signals in both America and Britain are flying. We are well on the route...
...Congratulations for the new dimension you have added to political reporting. J.V.I. is not only prettier, he is purer, smoother and gooder than anything else around. Thank you, Modern Screen...
until Sept. 1 to eliminate the sickening stench of burning bones from its chicken-rendering plant. At a Chicago convention, the American Petroleum Institute earmarked $1,800,000 for research on purer air and water next year, on top of $41 million that in dividual oil firms will spend to control pollution...