Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House worked desperately to clean up its calendar. Late hours and early hours were resorted to. Time was doled out in minutes. Speakers belched forth their arguments in haste in order to have their say before the descending gavel silenced them. Conferees worked desperately, reports were agreed with or disagreed with in hasty efforts at accomplishment. Business was rushing...
...York sports writer, described my acting in the cinema. Said he: 'Mr. Dempsey does not make love with the brazenness of a Valentino. His love-making is repressed. Mr. Dempsey merely looks at the "goil." He does not manhandle her. There are no shameless petting parties in this clean and wholesome film. The Dempsey "movies" are safe and sane and will get by any censor.' " Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University, (retiring) President of the American Medical Association and brother of Curtis D. Wilbur (Secretary of the Navy): "To a reporter for The New York...
Then came East the Arizona team to give battle to the Princetonians. Princeton, however, speedily decided the issue by scoring two clean-cut victories in succession, and the Westerners returned mournfully westwards...
...main business before Harvard's board of baseball strategy is to prevent Yale from making a clean sweep of the year's major sport contests, and for that reason today's game with Tufts is looked upon almost wholly as the last step in the preparation for Yale. Tufts will be the host of the Crimson nine at Tufts Oval at 3 o'clock...
...words. Without a doubt, this has great merit, and no little effect upon impressionable audiences. But it lacks "charm". For a long time, American politics have lacked charm. And this is most unfortunate. As the great need of politics today, according to any resume of authoritative opinion, is for clean-cut college men, some element of fascination--subtlety, humor, finesse--must be introduced to keep them from the book-binding profession, and the lure of bonds. One does not suggest, of course, that modern politics are quite as frank and bluff and straightforward as some would have us believe...