Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous acts of vaudeville get along remarkably well without tap-dancers. As a matter of fact, they get along without almost everything. But it's all in a spirit of good clean fun--or at least good...
...give out 1,000 handbills in an hour. Nobody is interested in them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...
...wants Congress adjourned somewhere between May 1 and May 15. Together President and Senator surveyed the calendar of Congress as if it were a chessboard, saw it littered with pieces of legislation, some to be moved to victory, others to be left dead when the board is arbitrarily swept clean by adjournment. Like two chessmasters they ticked off the bills that the Administration feels must be passed by some means or other before the game ends...
...pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting himself. Silly Mrs. Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last was leaving for her Manhattan dramatic school. Micky was going to have a baby. The Author, in company with many a left-wing litterateur, has taken a modern highroad to Parnassus. He comes honestly by his industrial subject. After serving...
...Governor's plan, although in itself admirable, is not likely to accomplish much in the way of stopping crime, unless the other obvious defects in the existing machinery for preventing and punishing crime are remedied. It is to be hoped that Mr. Ely's fight to clean out a bad mess will go beyond the reorganization of the police forces...