Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When someone has to be beaten in Russia, and the someone may be a refractory Red Army soldier, or of course a prisoner of the G. P. U., the order is dat shompola, "to give the cleaning rod." A heavy "rod" of twisted wire, such as soldiers use to clean their rifles, is used as a whip...
Boston Commissioner of Police Eugene C. Hultman, in an interview yesterday, described his, methods in dealing with criminals which caused Albert L. Brunker, of the Chicago Crime Commission to declare before the Boston City Club that if Hultman were police commissioner in Chicago he could "clean up the city...
Brunswick also came out first in epee matches by a 3 to 1 score, and made a clean sweep with the sabre...
...square his position on the Red issue, Chairman Fish gave a curious interview the day before his committee report was released. He said: "If Communism is a trial, so also is Capitalism. ... It is up to the Capitalist system to clean its Augean stables and divest itself of some of its manifestations of greed, inhumanity and reaction. ... I believe in Capitalism shorn of its abuses and ugly greed to exploit labor for the Almighty Dollar...
...correspondents last week Secretary Stimson made clear that he was not fooling, that he and President Hoover are aroused, that U. S. Minister Mitchell goes to Monrovia to make clean a filthy mess...