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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance to support a clean, wholesome, pure, enjoyable play, or prove that his "girl shows" are the right idea. As a matter of fact, his play is all he says it is, though little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...hard-played, fast game at the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night, the Harvard basketball team won a clean-cut victory over Yale by a 30 to 12 margin. The University players, in defeating Yale for the third successive year, displayed a decided superiority over their opponents. Their play was considerably better than the best they had shown in any game of their mediocre preliminary season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BASKETBALL TEAM SMOTHERED BY CRIMSON SHOTS | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...tried our best to keep the Breezy Point Library stage clean of Shubert and Al Wood's productions but the police were no good. So we tried a Censorship Committee. Fannie Peters, who wrote "Loves Labor Lost" and "Purple Pansies", Reverend Wilkins, and Hetty Salmers, whose been to Boston and knows the stage, were appointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORS CHECKED IN UNION DEBATE | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...Interclass Tournament each class has played three matches in which the Juniors have maintained the only clean slate. The Sophomores have won two and lost one, and the Seniors have taken one and dropped two. The first year men have three, losses chalked against them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR TOURNAMENTS TO CLOSE SQUASH SEASON | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

Judy. Beside a song hit presumptive: "When Gentlemen Grew Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old," this musical comedy has Queenie Smith, as ever a charming twinkle-toes. After an uncertain first night it picked up considerably, and is the first clean show with a Greenwich Village setting in many a year. Thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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