Simon Pure is the name of a Quaker character in the comedy, -"A Bold Stroke for a Wife." As he is impersonated by another character during part of the play, "tlie real Simon Pure" has come to mean not only the authentic person, but an>". thins genuine or real.
ihe burglars who broke into the Hammersmith Town Hall could only find ;« worth of stamps.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 13
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64Untitled Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 13
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