Word: cleanness
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...solid, durable satisfactions of life, not primarily the gratifications of this moment or tomorrow, but the satisfactions that are going to last and grow. So far as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man ought to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything in this world of domestic joy and professional success, everything of a useful, honorable career, on bodily wholesomeness and vitality...
...Langdon's funny scenes does not lessen his effectiveness as a comedian. In this picture, he is captured during the World War by Herr Zandow, Germany's strong man. Later, in the U. S., he is forced to impersonate his powerful employer. Incidental complications lead him to clean up a wicked town, discover his sweetheart, emerge as the local police force. His gestures, glances, movements, daintily restrained, cause explosions of laughter...
...permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly: "I do not feel called upon to answer Julius Rosenwald or any other individual." Meanwhile, Mr. Rosenwald arrived...
...dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain...
...light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's powerful if sometimes confusing report of how one man bought another's brains. CRAIG'S WIPE-A portrait of that woman down the street whose house is so scrupulously clean that you are chilled to enter it. LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric as a black rowdy who sails away to Paris with a French vicomte. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS-Ribald doings on Long Island when three mad young men and three bad elderly ladies foregather for the weekend. AT MRS. BEAM...