Word: cleanness
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...died suddenly. Thirty days after executive proclamation a special election will be held to fill his empty seat but Democrats were confident that they could replace him with one of their own. thereby adding another much-needed vote to their House strength. If they did, they would have a clean 218 majority...
Even without an appeal to the House of Lords, the Kylsant case has already cost $200,000?$125,000 to Sir John Simon; $25,000 to solicitors who collected evidence and $50,000 for the expenses of the Attorney General's office. In Wormwood Scrubs, Lord Kylsant had a clean cell eight feet by ten, a bed, two sheets, two blankets, a stool, a table, a shelf for Bible & photographs. He could and did have all his meals sent in from a first-class caterer...
Last week nine Communists were on trial in Toronto charged with "unlawful conspiracy and sedition." They jumped in their seats when their old friend "E. W. Esselwein" entered to give testimony, once more clean shaven and buttoned into the scarlet tunic of Sergeant Leonard...
...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...Sample joke: "Don't you agree that the movies should be kept clean?" "Absolutely! Something should be done about these people who throw candy boxes and peanut shells on the floor...