Word: cleanness
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...attained that mature development that such prominence demands. "Baby Blue" is a dainty, fragile thing with a few sweet songs and a great deal of light buoyant humor. After a great many suggestive comedies and heavy revues of the Winter season, it brings with it the fresh, clean breath of Spring...
...print of "Olympia," the original painting by Manet, the caricature of which aroused so much criticism in the Literary Digest number of the Lampoon. Cooke pointed out that the picture had been only slightly altered by the Lampoon artist. He also explained that the Lampoon maintained a standard of clean humor much higher than that of most contemporary college comics...
...William A. Sunday, Presbyterian evangelist, returned to Manhattan, lair of Liberals, for the first time since the War year when he came to clean up the "modern Babylon." Said...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...
...Pudding is out again, with a musical show that is much better than average, with a book containing some good lines, music that comes up to a high standard of red, white and blue syncopation, accurate dancing, clean, pretty costumes, a leading woman of uncommon excellence, and a spirit that is altogether exceptional. The leading woman is so darned good that it is a temptation to dismiss the production of "Laugh it Off" with the review, "Wilson, that...