Word: cleanness
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...devoted his life chiefly to the Crane Co. (president 1912-14), but with many trips abroad (first to Russia in 1887), and a stirring interlude at home when he headed the Municipal Voters League-an organization to ''Clean up Chicago...
Henry Brown, 27 times a father, is a butcher. He retired two years ago in ill health. Of his family he said: "They're all strong and healthy, and I encourage them in taking part in clean sport and play. The cellar's full of ice skates, skis, snowshoes and other stuff for them to play with outdoors. ... It would be nice to get the money, but if we don't-all right...
There is a vast difference between professional and intercollegiate boxing which is not always realized by the average sport enthusiast. In the latter every effort is made to accentuate the scientific principles of the sport and to turn the bouts into clean, hard, fighting for the sake of exercise rather than to make them grudge fight spectacles, colored by fits of temper. Goading and wild displays by the spectators are forbidden, destroying the possibility of adding the professional vulgarism...
...told the Knife & Fork Club; "When public opinion is aroused, Al Capone will go back to Italy-but I can't talk about Italy. God help anyone who gets in the way of public opinion, for I know." He then proceeded to explain how "any police force can clean any city in 24 hours if the Mayor and City Government want it done." Two days, later Alphonse Capone issued on tinted stationery from his Miami fortress a lofty reply to General Butler. Wrote he: "The General is ill-informed. He should know the laws of this country protect...
Asked whether he thought that Scotland Yard could clean up Chicago, famed Inspector Cecil Bishop said last week: "The gangsters would be easy. It would be the police that the Yard would go after. . . . The U. S. police, on the whole, are very efficient, but many of them are also very crooked...