Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Cheat. This little screen sister of Rain has a steady downpour on its South Sea island. Also, it has a minister who fis sorely tempted, after preaching Hellfire and brimstone at the poor native sinners who wear their sins openly. But in this case the rain washes everyone clean. The minister who plans to leave with the woman he loves?a wife who has fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture...
...have taught people to be clean, wiped out the filth plagues, the black death which killed every other person in London in 1350, and smallpox, which killed every tenth person in New York...
Owen Carroll was the mystery that he has always been, but he was found for seven clean hits by the University batters. His effectiveness was 100 per cent in the pinches, however, as the Harvard ninth inning proves. Todd singled to start that frame. Hammond was safe when Walsh booted his easy roller, and Rogers walked, Carroll calmly surveyed Crimson runners on every base and then struck out the side. A. S. Rogers, batting for Hill, Samborski, and Larrabee, hitting in place of Brown, were the three victims. Carroll also fanned Hammond, A. G. Rogers, and Hill in the seventh...
Townsend, on the other hand, was unable to shut off Harvard hits when hits meant runs. Captain Jenkins emerged from his batting slump with a bang, making three clean hits and scoring the winning run in the tenth. Todd also did yeoman work with the willow, driving out two singles and a slashing two bagger. Gordon, after four failures to hit, lined a single to center in the tenth that broke up the game...
...individual championships the East asserted itself as well, winning 13 of the 15 events. One of those championships went to Harvard, when Watters, who has yet to be beaten in the half-mile, kept his record clean by defeating Helffrich of Penn State, the defending champion, in a whirlwind 880-yards run. Watters stepped out and led the pack, composed of the ten foremost collegiate halfmilers of the country, from the starting gun to the tape, winning by a full five yards...