Word: cleanness
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...principal burlesque theatre. Broun and Benchley and Woolcott, and all the rest of them, occupied aisle seats at the performance, and printed their formal reviews in their publications. The meaning of the incident soon became plain: the authorities recognized the effort made by the better element in burslesque to clean house. The most prominent theatrical personages paid homage to the wagers of the bitterest war that the theatre has ever known...
Burlesque will never be considered the highest form of theatrical entertainment, but it will furnish its millions of patrons with clean amusement, and all because a few men had the courage of their convictions. All the drama of the theatre is not enacted upon the stage...
...things have their endings, even scandals and congressional investigations. Last week, the Senate wrote finis on its investigations of Secretary Fall, of naval oil leases, of all that appertained thereto, filthy or clean...
There are, of course, some advantages in possessing a longitudinally flexible shape. One could turn on the chandelier without getting up from the table, and clean out the chimney quite simply by taking the stuff in a succession of homeopathic doses. In fact, there is only one difficulty with the whole idea. So far, Dr. Evans has not yet announced a corresponding antidote...
Plastic surgery (restoration of mutilated features) was practiced in Italy as early as 1456. Noses, lips, ears were repaired. Hospitals of the 14th and 15th Centuries were scrupulously clean; bed linen was changed often; stoves were wheeled to the bedsides of patients in winter. Anatomy was studied by dissection, leprosy almost disappeared, other diseases were isolated.-Prof. Lynn Thorndike, Columbia University...