Word: cleanness
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MacDonald's judgment is that of a practical, and what is more a libera statesman. It can be trusted further than that of professional reformers, who are passing now from liquor to evolution, cosmetics, and clean books, than that of officers of the W. C. T. U. and allied organizations, who may be suspected of looking to Prohibition for their bread and butter. It is really of tremendous significance that a man who would be characterized by most of the die-hards from the rural districts as a bolshevik and so hardly more to be respected than a common theif...
...amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...afternoon when it will meet the strong Union College team. The Union golfers have a record which shows only two matches lost in the past three years and should give the University some of the stiffest opposition it will meet this season. In its last match it made a clean win from Syracuse 5-0 in which only one match went beyond the twelfth green. Robert Cox has not been beaten in two seasons...
Lord and Chauncey Clean...
...will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean-cut work; and Reynal's full page drawing, though encumbered with too much work on the background and accessories, gives promise of a real gift for cartooning. Questions 2 and 4 in "How Much Do You Know" are as funny as they come anywhere...