Word: cleanness
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...behavior to welcome "Eyes & Ears." Governor General Dwight Filley Davis had proclaimed a national holiday. With Vice Governor General George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary of War came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
...Treasury had to borrow because it was living far beyond its means. Last year it piled up a $903,000,000 deficit. On July i it started over again with a clean fiscal slate. Last week the 1932 deficit rolled up during the first two months of the fiscal year amounted to $396,000,000 compared to $240,000,000 for the same period last year. If the July- August rate of spending was maintained, it meant that the Treasury would be more than $2,000,000,000 in the red next June 30. But Treasury actuaries explained that...
Carl Milles is 56, short, broad-shouldered, stocky, clean shaven. He has brown hair and big hands. With his big hands he likes to do sculpture of heroic size. He has prospered; his house is one of Sweden's showplaces. His wife is an Austrian who paints. They like to travel, particularly in the U. S. where they have many a friend and admirer. He teaches part of the year at Stockholm's Royal Akademie, goes to see Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf with whom he is intimate...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself...