Word: cleanness
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...Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...
Nothing in the exhibition is quite similar in technique to two pictures by William Little field, rough drawings enforced with lithographic pencil in strong strokes, the result being clean cut and powerful drawings, admirably suited to the subject matter. Numerous other contributions complete one of the more interesting exhibitions of the year...
...During the last few weeks . . I have ignored the unfounded and slanderous attacks that have been running in the gossip gazettes. . . . Every man and woman of sense and sensibility in New York this beautiful morning experienced a shock in their ordinarily clean newspaper. Thanks to the Sunday clerk of a committee of the National Republican Club, this committee, with no constructive program, no civic pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life...
...Cicero and Acra are different. Cicero has always been a tawdry, hard-boiled village of Sicilians and "blind pigs." Acra is a clean little Catskill settlement. Cider and applejack are home industries in that countryside. Last week Acra set about to rid itself of the slick, racketeering little rat that had run to it from the big city...
When an oyster egg hatches it produces a larva. The larva eventually "settles" and cements itself as a "spat" to a clean submerged stone or old shell, where it grows until big enough to eat. Just what makes the spats settle has always been an ostreiculture problem. Last week Herbert F. Prytherch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries gave an answer, in Science...