Word: cleanness
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...good clean fun on board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert...
...officer of the U. S. since the late, tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler. After a gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif, following...
...answer to the medical profession is simple: It is up to them to clean house. From now on it is a fight to the finish between the medical profession and ourselves. There can be only one outcome to this contest. The medical profession will lose...
...British, the victory of their Grand Fleet at Jutland, the same date. As even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied best to prove that England really won. Neutral U. S. readers, however, will still feel that much can be repeated on both sides...
...emphasize the change of personnel so much as the psychological advantage which is to be gained from the new elections. They provide a new starting-point; they are a jumping-off point. They enable the editors to climb upon a mountain-top and survey the scene; to breathe fresh, clean...