Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that protest against the continuance in power of the present administration, with its record of weakness and vice, is made most effective by a united support of the Democratic national ticket. Mr. Davis is a true progressive and a man of signal ability. His record is clean and honest, as is the record of his party. There is no cause for any progressive man who desires a government of honesty at home and honor abroad to vote for an independent candidate with a hastily formed and politically irresponsible party so long as John W. Davis stands four-square...
...boats were painted red instead of the usual white because the great quantities of oil, both in the Charles and in the Thames, made it impossible to keep the boats clean...
...game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient puffiness that sits upon the living one, gazes mildly down. Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet. He is represented in this exhibit by a pencil study of a horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler...
...less illuminating. Radio, fiction and cinema pages were at parity. Macfadden's "health page" was unique but nothing to worry about, so they waited to see if Macfadden's disconnected, irrelevant "human interest" stories, in behalf of "clean living" and "the whole truth," would offer any competition to their own flashy news columns. They knew that if money could sharpen this competition, Macfadden had millions. They knew that he "expected to make a few million dollars for myself and associates" and would therefore force the fray. They realized that if The Graphic turned out successful, many another such...
Only four clean blows were struck, all by Wills, and those disconnectedly. In the first round, he jarred the Bull Man's head. In the second, he laid the Bull Man suddenly horizontal with a right jaw-punch, as they were backing out of a clinch. The third was a blood-bringing uppercut to the Bull Man's jaw. The last, a stiff left to the same spot...