Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Lindbergh in your discussion of his "signed" story, classing him with Peaches Browning and Ruth Snyder. If your attitude toward him hadn't been clear before, it is now. Your petty article reminds one of the small-town gossip whose chief joy lies in muddying some clean name in the neighborhood. I have concluded that "readableness, interest," to quote one of your own apologies, is your chief standard...
...House Octet. Among the U. S. "stunts" that entertained the Europeans was the singing of the icehouse octet from Toledo. Eight businessmen, wearing clean blue flannel shirts, sporting ice picks painted red, sang, led by Mortician Jeffery V. Harris...
That which made my performance on May 1 at all notable was the somersaults forward and backward in the air; that is, clean turns from feet to feet without the interposition of any part of the body.* This performance was simply incidental with me, as I have been doing all these turns for something like 60 years, and expect to continue doing them some years longer...
Fifty golden guineas ($255) and an added purse of $15,000 were "to be run for," in the language of Victoria, Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then...
...George M. Pullman was in Chicago, a successful contractor. He persuaded Chicago & Alton officials to give him two coaches to remodel with sleeping berths. His novelties were upper berths that folded up by day, clean linen, one washroom for men and one for women. So successful were these sleepers that he immediately built a "Pullman" car designed especially for sleep-traveling...