Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands are none too clean-and yet this criticism of hostility at the Games is just another example of our self-righteousness. The newspapers stir us with accounts of how the gallant boys were coolly received by the French spectators; but they do not tell us some of the things I saw with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station...
...work of the cross-country team today brings to a close one of the most successful seasons in years. Only the reverse at the hands of Yale last week in the triangular meet at Princeton marred a clean slate for the runners, and close followers of distance running know that only the poor condition of the men ten days ago caused the surrender of the triangular cross-country title. Coach Farrell loses only two men this year by graduation. Cutcheon and Captain Chapin are both Seniors, but in O'Neil and Luttman of the present Freshman team Coach Farrell...
...second successive year, under conditions which again threatened to convert the game to water polo, an alert and powerful Yale eleven has earned its victory over Harvard. The University bows to Captain Lovejoy and his men in acknowledgment of their clean sportsmanship and their invincible spirit...
...declared that he was very proud of his profession and the progress that it had made because actors had risen by their own efforts from travelling mountebanks to members of a recognized profession. He attributed a good deal of this success to the efforts of Keith in popularizing good, clean, wholesome amusement...
Fred Stone is one of the best known figures of the American musical comedy stage. The success of his show, "Stepping Stones", in which he and his daughter play the most important roles, has demonstrated the fact that the public will support clean musical comedy...