Word: purient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much more interested in reading U. S. and British books and magazines, in search for ideas, and was the last girl in the world to lose her head in such temperamental fashion. Finally, they were unanimous in flaying the gossip mongers who had so flagrantly circulated what they termed "purient nonsense...
...only cemetery which Charmington boasts she held her court. Around her in a semi-circle the men of Charmington stood while Cartrack preached, not in the saintly tones of Isaiah Poodle but in the stately rhythms of a purient pekinese. She told them of pleasures they had never known, would never know, of the palaces and sanquti the glitter and garnish of decent diminution, and they hung about her and listened until the moon was high above Charmington and the lights in the passing ten o'clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery...