Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Marvin Brush was a serious and determined young man. While he traveled his territory (he was a salesman of educational textbooks) he kept his hand in by writing religious mottoes on handy hotel blotters, rebuking girls who smoked, attempting to convert hard-boiled chance acquaintances. He was the strongest man who had ever been to his little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors...
...m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering her a long-handled brush, "you may sweep up the courtroom." Debutante Bullitt gripped the brush awkwardly, dabbed ineffectively at the floor. After a few dabs the maid stepped past smirking court attendants, swished the butts into a rubbish pile...
...Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches in the Near East to promote the sale of U. S. arms. A munitions scandal might tar the War and Navy Departments with the same brush used to tar their friends, the arms makers...
...student should eat spinach and brush his teeth; he should go to bed early; and he should take a certain amount of exercise. Those are the simple and straightforward facts of the course in hygiene as it is given at Harvard. That is the nucleus around which the Hygiene Department must construct an informative and attractive course for Freshmen...
...paint into our pictures exactly what we hold in thought, and just as the artist changes his canvas by a stroke of the brush here and there . . . so each one of us may paint and regulate his own world and experiences for good by refusing to admit the carnal into thought and by tracing on his world canvas only those pure and exalting ideas which come from...