Word: cleanness
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...lace-frill motif in valentines is decidedly on its way out," one stationer said. "That type is apparently joining the old comic valentine which disappeared several years ago. The modern valentine is becoming clean-cut and the ones with a touch of humor are the most popular...
...portion of the people are damn sick of these Clean Cut Young Men, as Nemo declares in your issue of February 13, another portion of the people, I venture to suggest, are also damn sick and tired of the Jittery Juveniles who so insistently yap their disbelief in the honesty of those who, as a matter of good taste if nothing more, actually prefer cleanliness, decency, and integrity to their opposites...
...bored at a risque musical comedy, who ostentatiously spurned liquor and lechery, do anything ignoble? Unfortunately, Lindy has been as mistaken in his analysis of the public temper as he was in his estimation of Roosevelt's naivete; the people are, in fact, damn sick and tired of these Clean Cut Young Men; Mr. James Cagney has been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke...
...usual, these charges stirred Georgia to resentment against outside criticism of its race relations rather than to clean-up action. Said the Atlanta Constitution: "There are no better people in Georgia or in any other state than those . . . in Jefferson County. . . . There should be some way to protect such communities from the calumny of literary tumble-bugs...
...shall clean up Paris simply, and with all my heart and soul," said...