Word: cleanness
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...They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen in the sun, in the heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come out to see the gladiator's show. But from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon...
Cried Eleutherios Venizelos, "Let her go! I command it!" Physicians pronounced the bite "clean," scouted rumors of hydrophobia...
...much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories, in the case of the enraged reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, on ". . . today's developments in the clash between purveyors of dramatic filth and the clean-minded majority of San Franciscans...
...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...