Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Which legs does a fly use to clean its middle pair?" "How many ounces of grass does a grasshopper eat in a day?" Miss Claribel R. Barnett, librarian of the Department of Agriculture, answers these questions and many like them, put by perplexed letter writers...
...last all dirty smudges are to be erased from the virgin whiteness of the printed page. The founder of the Clean Books League has thus described its purpose: "To form a coterie of men who are well known and whose opinions will have weight, not churchmen and not goody-goody men, but hardened sinners like myself, representative fathers of families. They will read the books and pass judgement on them and vouch it to the world if they are objectionable or shocking...
...Brown wrestling team closed its season with a clean record when it defeated the University team by the score of 19-6 at Providence Saturday evening. Although the University wrestlers were decisively defeated on a point basis the matches were, for the most part, closely contested. Captain H. J. Freedman '23 and W. C. Westhaver '24 were the only men to score points for the Crimson, each winning his match by the referee's decision...
...pause a moment over our cups: having sipped the vinegar of defeat and clinked our glasses to the health of the Crimson cohorts, we would propose a least to a man whose achievements have made history for the past four years of Yale Harvard competition. An outstanding athlete a clean sports man, a fighter all the way his prowess always to be feared and admired whether on aridiron, diamond or rink, George Owen. Yale News
...with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking him, and finally give place to the girl...