Word: cleanness
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...Freshman baseball team suffered Its second defeat of the season Saturday at Soldiers Field, succumbing to the hard hitting and clean fielding of Williston Seminary, by the score of 6 to 3. Coach Davidson tried three pitchers before the end of the contest, but they were all ineffectual. Captain Maher played steadily through the whole game, but he was handicapped by his injured finger...
Leguia, the handsomest, is Spanish. At one point in his career he acquired European culture, and by advocating new and clean government he secured his election as President of Peru. But for some unexplained reason he found it necessary to seize power by a revolution only a week before his predecessor's term would have legally expired...
Edith of Nantes, a risque French play, was closed in Paris, following an energetic protest by indignant spectators. This is the first play to be suppressed in the Government's clean-up of Paris playhouses...
...raged. Because his daughter might have been shocked by some highly literary but indecent expression, Justice Ford set about outlawing the whole body of literature from the Greek classics to George Moore for everybody, at least in New York State. That was the origin of the Clean Books Campaign wherein the mobilized blue forces of New York are attempting to jam through the legislature the most drastic piece of censorship in American history...
Moreover, another provision of the law forbids the introduction of expert testimony by the defense. That is to say, the Clean Books League and the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who are backing the bill, can not hope for conviction if expert intelligence is brought to bear on a suspect author. They must rely on ignorance and prejudice...