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
Excerpts: Secretary of State Hull: Our foreign trade policy . . . has been a noble one �in the tradition of simon-pure old-fashioned Southern democracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Going in for the real old simon-pure, blue-ribbon brand of respectability this time, ain't you Madgie?" he chuckled; but he wrote the check on the spot.
From The Price by Lynde, Francis
