Word: cleanness
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...Clean, Wholesome...
...energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their semiweekly shirt sleeves clean. She herself kept trim and cheerful. In 1919 the gas company workers decided they wanted to strike. Mary talked to them like a mother and also like a "dutch uncle." They kept on working. Her ways with the public, with the company's 40,000 consumers, were always winning...
...other prisoners introduced alibis tending to prove that they could have taken no part in either the kidnaping or the murder. Loudly they pleaded "Not guilty!" Resolutely they maintained then-entire innocence. Somewhat bored, the smiling Signoras concentrated their attention upon chief prisoner Dumini, young, clean shaven, born in St. Louis...
...Strochavi examined the lump. Was the lump present at birth? No, her baby had been a "clean" baby. He felt the lump. The infant screamed. Contusion? There was no sign of bruising. Caput succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull? Probably not. Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with...
...jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood it was clean. Little possibility of infection. The child probably would live...