Word: clean
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...daily: The beds must be turned and neatly made; the crockery washed; the ashes removed; the floors brushed where needed; sports on the paint washed off, and the rooms and furniture carefully dusted with cloths. - The rooms must be thoroughly swept once a week. The windows must be kept clean. - The work in the rooms is to be done at such times as may suit the convenience of the tenants, but it must be finished before noon. It may be begun...
ENTRIES AND STAIRS. - The entries and stairs must be swept daily, after being sprinkled with wet sawdust, and must be thoroughly washed often enough to keep them clean...
...notify the Superintendent of any thing about the building which needs his attention. He will keep the steps free from snow and ice. He will light the gas in the entries at dark. He will keep the rooms and all other parts of the building as neat and clean as in a well-kept private house...
...learned that he did not, as a rule, like Americans (thank Heaven! I am one of the exceptions); that he was very fond of his home and children, however, - which I still doubt, considering his heartless treatment of that child in the railway carriage; that he wore three clean shirts a week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made him England's laureate; that he did not like to shave himself; that, however late he might stay out at night, he was always able...
Tommie had been thinking of William Pear, a young man from Boston, who was in the soap business and lived on Beacon Street. Young Pear, in spite of his greenness and the obnoxious soap, was sensible - and clean. But there was an undefined shrinking from him in her heart. His father...