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Word: cleansed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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AT THE METROPOLITAN--Go to "Dodge City" in a reminiscent mood and you will enjoy it, for it will bring back with the crash of a six-shooter those days ten years ago when you slipped down to the neighborhood theatre with a quarter burning a hole in your pocket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAIN THE CRY | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

One of the most popular of U. S. heroes is a crusading young district attorney who cleans up dirty local politics. In real life, for half a century, he or his impersonator has turned up periodically in all parts of the U. S. In fiction his reappearances are almost continuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Wigwam Party | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

To those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tbe Crime | 1/17/1936 | See Source »

And cleans it every day so well,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red Meat & Old Eggs | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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