Word: cleanness
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...forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock transactions are crooked, where each college is just four years of drinking, where each dance is a brawl and each marriage a failure. Is it not possible to export pictures which are more typical of American life? Out here hundreds...
...black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into the black depths of the moving squall...
...only outstanding nomination that might be construed as a dry victory is the majority secured by Mr. Pinchot in Pennsylvania. But here even the candidate who is an ardent dry attributes his victory to a desire for clean government rather than enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. Nearly every reputable indication of public feeling has been against the anti-alcohol laws. It does not take an interpreter to read the writing that is becoming more and more distinct on the American political wall. Whether or not it is here to stay, Prohibition is certainly the biggest political issue in this country...
...rate, the Princetonian has determined to clean up its reading pronto. Let's get the boys out of the trenches by Labor Day! Daily Princetonian...
...Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...