Word: cleanness
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...pause a moment over our cups: having sipped the vinegar of defeat and clinked our glasses to the health of the Crimson cohorts, we would propose a least to a man whose achievements have made history for the past four years of Yale Harvard competition. An outstanding athlete a clean sports man, a fighter all the way his prowess always to be feared and admired whether on aridiron, diamond or rink, George Owen. Yale News
...with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking him, and finally give place to the girl...
...contest was characterized by clean, consistent playing, but there was little of the spectacular aggressiveness seen in the recent contests with Dartmouth and Princeton. Until the initial tally neither team seemed to be able to build up a substantial offensive, with the result that it settled down to a passing game, occasionally interrupted by long ineffective shooting. The first goal came after 11 minutes and 55 seconds of manoeuvering in the second session when Reid followed up a rebound. Captain Bulkeley had carried the puck down through the Crimson defense for a hard shot at the cage, but it bounced...
...clear, deep voice Bishop Brent read a passage from the Bible. Apart from any meaning, the words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon which followed was like this, too. It was the encouraging hand grip of a man you could trust. Then the choir sang as only Dr. Davison can make a choir sing--feeling expressed in music. And everyone joined in a hymn and listened to the tense little prayer which concluded the service...
Saturday's clean sweep was marked by keenly contested play, only one match being won in straight games. W. P. Dixon '25 showed up especially well in defeating Henry Harper who recently won the Metropolitan championship...