Word: cleanness
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...white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...
...fortnight ago, Dr. Straton, in his evening sermon used the word vice. His point: "However clean, personally, the Democratic candidate may be, and however innocent he may have been of any deliberate intention to give aid and comfort to the forces of vice, lawlessness, and drunkenness, nevertheless, because he is the type of politician he happens to be and because his sympathies and the judgments of his heart are with the liquor crowd and the hangers-on of the liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore...
...immoral. Detectives have for a decade, hounded Gov. Smith's present and past. Apparently Gov. Smith has never visited a brothel. Apparently Gov. Smith has never spent so much as an hour in compromising circumstances with any woman. Therefore, Dr. Straton's attack must be "However clean . . . nevertheless...
...bore with her infidelity. Whether the difference in the two generations is an advance in civilization or a deterioration in force of character, Mr. Galsworthy rather emphasizes the latter by Jon's vague back-to-nature farming venture, and Michael's disarming but nonetheless softy campaign to clean up the slums. Somehow the younger generation hasn't quite the stamina of old Soames, cynical, Victorian, who puts an indelible stamp on his generation...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...