Word: cleanness
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...rumors that the University mentor might adopt a conservative policy and keep his recently-injured stars out of the Brown tilt, concentrating all his efforts on next week's struggle with Yale. In the University football camp the feeling persists that a victory over the Bruins, who have a clean state to date, would be enough to warrant every effort, and even a few risks...
...feeling of many Harvard men that Princeton plays football in a manner unbecoming a gentleman, that Princeton cares more for athletic victories than for clean sportsmanship...
Henry Ford: "Last week I was reported as saying to the school children at Gatlinburg, Tenn.: 'This is the first speech I ever made in my life. I am glad to be here and I am glad to see you children all so clean and healthy. That remark will cause some of my party to laugh, but I will explain it later. I thank...
Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little...
...byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons for Punch and The Graphic. Lately he been called "court painter to King Oberon and Queen Titania...