Word: purist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avalanche over western Berlin, beating up Jews, daubing Jewish shops, slugging Jews' women. Beside each squad of Storm Troops rumbled a car bristling with Count Wolf von Helldorf's police to arrest Jews or others who resisted. Announced the Messiah of Nazi Jew-baiting, famed Race-Purist Julius Streicher: "I myself will head the drive to purge Berlin of all Jews and segregate them in ghettos...
...quoted Philadelphia Purist Dr. Howard McClenahan correctly on p. 44 of TIME, Feb. 26, isn't there some question whether or not Princeton's ex-Dean Mac himself indulged in a solecism when he said: "Such grammatical mistakes are inexcusable...
Would not Purist Mac have been more pure, less "solecistic," even at the risk of being somewhat didactic, or even pedantic, had he said, ''Such errors in grammar are inexcusable...
...gentlemen," cried Purist McClenahan, "can such a situation exist? Such glaring inaccuracies are discreditable to the Board of Education. Such grammatical mistakes are inexcusable in any case, but it is inconceivable that this body, representing the educational system of this city, should allow such glaring errors to appear in its records...
Careful investigation has satisfied TIME 1) that Bettor Hill is an earnest as well as a facetious purist; 2) that he, possessor of a vast football library, was sincere in his devious criticism of TIME's use of "All-America" and "All-American"; 3) that though correct in the instance he cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity...