Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried Eleutherios Venizelos, "Let her go! I command it!" Physicians pronounced the bite "clean," scouted rumors of hydrophobia...
...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...
...boys sell small boys the privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment...
...signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...