Word: broom
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SPINACH. Acts on your stomach like a broom. Never forget to repeat M. Prudhomme's famous remark: "I don't like it and am glad of it, because if I liked it I would eat it--and I can't stand it." (Some people will find this sensible enough and won't laugh...
...begins to get a flow of corpses from two lodginghouse keepers in the most wretched part of the city. At first, the two bully boys, Fallon and Broom, simply smother their lodgers in their beds. Later, the victims are made drunk and done away with as was young Jennie Bailey, the prostitute...
...about up. Dr. Rock has his last joke about Fallon and Broom: "They are corpse-diviners. Or, as some have green fingers for gardening, so they have black fingers for death." Then the police, the trial, disgrace. Dr. Rock himself is saved from trial by influential colleagues who have had dealings with body snatchers themselves. But life in Edinburgh is hardly bearable for a man, how ever innocent, when the desperately poor sing in the streets...
...housecleaning was symbolic of a clean sweep that overtook Germany's whole political household in the huge (86% of all eligible voters) turnout of last week's general election. With one sweep of the electoral broom, some 28 million German voters had pushed aside all the troublesome, totalitarian splinter groups (including Communists and Neo-Nazis) that clutter most European politics, giving Germany alone of Europe's nations a workable two-party Parliament in the pattern of Britain...
...presidential candidate, arrived from Europe with a new blast. "I think New York is the dirtiest city I've ever been in, and I love New York," said Edith Willkie. But she had the start of a solution: "I'm willing to go out with a broom and help clean up myself...