Word: cleaner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hardly anybody had stated the case in terms that sweeping. Far less than 1% of federal employees have been in any way involved in charges. The civil service has never been cleaner, never enjoyed a better reputation. The trouble is that so many of the scandals have struck so close to the top: Truman himself and the Deep Freezers, Harry Vaughan and his friends among the five-percenters, three district Collectors of Internal Revenue appointed by the President, a mink coat to a White House stenographer, a camera to a presidential secretary, and then the story of Bill Boyle...
Across the street, Mrs. Millare C. Upson was putting her vacuum cleaner away when she heard a "boom" and looked out the front door. "The Maas home just seemed to settle right into its basement. Then there were the awful flames and the smoke." Two men working nearby dragged the housekeeper out into the yard, her clothes on fire. More explosions rocked the area. A house down the street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered...
Automatic Valet. In the lobby of a Cleveland office building last week, U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp. placed an automatic dry-cleaning vending machine. The customer phones the cleaning company from the machine and puts his suit in a locker. The clothes are picked up by the cleaner, returned to the locker in four to seven hours. The customer deposits his money and the locker opens. U.S. Hoffman plans to install 20 "Valeterias" in Cleveland, start nationwide distribution by next year...
There experts cleansed the napping, hissing birds with a carefully blended mixture of soap and paraffin, taking great care not to destroy the natural oil in their feathers ("without it they would become waterlogged and sink"). Also used in the operation: brushes, sponges, sandpaper and a vacuum cleaner...
...mostly as a ten-minute show-within-a-show. Written, produced and directed by Philip Rapp, who introduced Baby Snooks to radio, the new series, sponsored by Philip Morris, is expanded to a half-hour, distinguished by a wry humor, and deals with the misadventures of an indigent vacuum-cleaner salesman (Lew Parker) and his termagant wife (Frances Langford), who takes time out from badgering her husband often enough to sing an occasional song...