Word: cleanness
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...with courage and the love of fair play, is decidedly shaky. It has been standing for obstruction, destruction and disturbance. Of late it has been reveling in abuse, calumny and slander of the dead as well as of the living, so its own skirts have proved to be less clean than those of the party it has been attacking. It seems to me that a fitting emblem for the Democrats in the next campaign would be the buzzard...
...ripened 51 years, Dean Stone is solidly built, clean shaven, energetic, quieta business man and a scholar. At college he played centre on the football eleven.- Now his only outdoor sport is fishing. For recreation he reads serious books. His love of work is insatiable...
...goodness!" Wald continued. "One is in a different world. They've never had it so good." Wald cited large increases in oil companies' profits in 1972, and a 10.9 per cent increase in General Motors' "very clean old men" directors who, he said, nevertheless claim to be "doing poorly...
When politicians turn for a moment from investigations and log-rolling activities to less congenial employment the result is usually highly interesting. And when the discussion wanders to the field of literature it is as frequently highly entertaining. The debate on the Rabenold "Clean Book" bill at Albany has proved no exception to the rule. Rabalais, Thomas Paine, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have been tossed about in a manner quite disrespectful to "classics." And lost in the maze of pleasant literary reminiscences the heat of debate be dissipated, a sulphurous ring of vituperative phrases has been struck. "This amendment...
Arguing for a development of boxing as an intercollegiate sport four years ago, Dr. Paul Withington declared: "It is as clean as any other sport we have, and if conducted properly, should develop the same good sportsmanship as football or track." And probably even the giant Firpo will now admit that its essence is skill and not brute strength. If comparison is made with other sports, boxing is certainly to be preferred to wrestling and is less dangerous than football. But its organization on an intercollegiate basis offers inherent difficulties as exemplified by the recent ruling of Yale authorities that...