Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dressed up to look like "distinguished" TIME readers. Then I suggest "old ladies," too, because they would cost only $12 a week, and you wouldn't have the expense of dressing them up, because most old ladies have some nice clothes put away somewhere and are fairly clean...
That was what the Allies did last week. Marshal Foch gave Germany a clean bill of disarmament; and forthwith Article 213 of the Treaty automatically operated to transfer supervision of German armament from the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission to the Council of the League of Nations...
...more respect for the artistic value of a pretty girl than I, but in this girl-made era we are forgetting the fact that artistically and historically, the male of the species is of some importance. . . . "Mr. Stone seems to me to represent the genuine, clean-minded, keen young man of today in these United States. Every girl will have a candidate for this honor, but if she looks at the portrait I have done of Mr. Stone she is more likely to see more than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart...
Dress?Disheveled but clean, usually white...
...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...