Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russians showed Laval Moscow and he found himself impressed with the fact that Moscow is a brisk, clean, modern metropolis, not a shambles in a swamp. They showed him, the first foreigner ever to see it, the great military air camp at Monino, the planes that might some day conceivably be called on to help France stand off Germany. Gaily the Russians did mass parachute jumping, their favorite way of showing off, spelled out in plane formations the letters "R. F." for République Franchise. "I have an unforgettable impression . . ." said M. Laval...
Having completed last year an experimental two-reeler, La Cucaracha (which grossed $350,000), the Whitneys held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
...solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea pigs. Two openings sealed with a pair of rubber gloves permit him to reach into the cage to handle the animals, feed and water them, clean the cage without a germ getting...
Harmon White Caldwell is 36* and dean of the university's Lumpkin Law School. A slight, boyish bachelor, he has clean-cut features, flawless Southern manners and a bashfulness in the presence of women which betrays a life spent at his books & business. Some thirty years ago he was distinguishing himself as the smartest boy in Haralson, Ga. Twenty years ago he was the smartest student at Boys' High School at Atlanta. He spent two years going through the University of Georgia, two more teaching, before he entered Harvard Law School in 1921. Graduated, he taught for three...
...nine young men had been trained by Shawn to help prove his conviction that "dancing is not a sissy art." He set out to form an all-male troupe as soon as the Denishawn chapter was closed. He wanted real men, not half men. So to start clean he left Manhattan, went to the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he talked to trackmen, wrestlers, footballers. Dancing, he argued, was originally a male prerogative, forbidden to women. Primitive men have always danced as a natural part of their worship. The young athletes who followed Shawn...