Word: purest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tenor Embrace. Standing between her mother & father after the encores, Anna Maria was embraced by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and heard Baritone Giuseppe de Luca call her voice "a divine instrument." Said the New York Times next day: "Some of the purest, loveliest sounds that have been heard all season...
...higher plane than such folklore is the religion of the Siamese. They claim theirs is the purest form of Buddhism in the world; many travelers have been impressed by the relaxed and decorous atmosphere of Siamese temples, the devotees reclining with happy, compassionate smiles, the priests all dignity and kindness. Buddhists believe a man by good works stores up bunya (merits) to balance against his bapa (sins...
Wearing of the Green. In its purest sense the Shamrock is less a hotel than a kind of Versailles, and it is almost impossible to enter without being reminded that its Louis is none other than Glenn McCarthy. A large oil portrait of the proprietor hangs on a wall flanking the lobby elevator doors; framed there, with folded arms, tumbled hair and an expression reminiscent of both Maxie Rosenbloom and Barrymore's Hamlet, he stares austerely at all who enter. The portrait's eyes are said to soften slightly when McCarthy confronts it in the flesh...