Word: clean-cut
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Dale H. Maple, 20, is a clean-cut U. S. boy, with hazel eyes, white, even teeth, a firm, straight jaw. Born in San Diego, Calif, to middle-class U. S. parents, he went to San Diego High School, shone in his studies, showed talent in music. A devout Catholic, he attended church every Sunday. In school he studied German, became interested in German culture. He graduated from high school...
...Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...
Even to people who have no means of sharing Chesterton's European culture and Roman Catholic faith, his thesis, though it is not unique, will seem uniquely clean-cut. It is serenely distinct from cliches of wartime propaganda. Chesterton points out that, if Europe's politicians had understood the real issues at stake, they would never have weakened Christian Germany (Austria) after the War, nor allowed pagan Prussia again to become strong. He foresaw that Naziism and Bolshevism would get together. "If or when the New Germany moves one inch towards infringing on the present ancient frontiers...
That spectacular piece of reporting, American White Paper by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, declared last month that U. S. foreign policy-in conception at least-is neither hare-brained nor haphazard but determined and clean-cut (TIME, April 29). But difficulties in its application and debate on its course still remain. Last week and this, two books by distinguished students of the problem were rushed into print. Each was primarily concerned with the protection...
Miss Keith claims that she cau "spot" a Harvard man from afar, because he is clean-cut and appears to have much practical intelligence. "Harvardiaus know a good thing when they see it, and I do try to let them...