simon-pure
Example Sentences
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But the notion that small community banks are somehow simon-pure, in contrast to the risk-happy banks of the East and West Coasts, is ludicrous on its face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
“The Kidnap Murder Case” is real, simon-pure Van Dine, and that should be good enough for anybody.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
And Canadians, with their British-oriented sensibilities, were conscious of amateurism and the role that sport played among the simon-pure.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2012
He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now over at Harvard, where they grow the English Accent, a Student must grind through a long Course, and a Fellowship and an Instructorship before he blossoms into a simon-pure Professor.
From People You Know by George Ade
