Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut which hoisted Heeney clean off the canvas. At the ringside, Heeney's wife tore her handkerchief, moaned into it. In the ninth Heeney was twice bumped to the floor, twice wambled up again. The referee, humane, stopped the bout but neglected the ceremony of lifting high the victor's right hand. Campolo...
Certainly these 14 clean-cut words ought to come in handy when Mohammed Pasha tries to get the treaty ratified by a to-be-elected Egyptian Parliament. The only thing wrong?or even peculiar?about Article I is the interpretation placed upon it by Articles...
...bench of the Gaston County (N. C.) Superior Court last week sat a tall, clean-cut, smooth-faced man of 41. He was Judge Morris Victor Barnhill, the State's youngest judge, sent into the county by Governor Oliver Max Gardner to try an extraordinary case. Before him were 13 men, three women. Laughing, smiling, they looked more like college boys and girls than the Communistic strike leaders they were. They were charged with murder and conspiracy...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
...cynical divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich women's gigolos." The only ascertainable basis for such scandal is the appearance at Reno's railroad station, from time to time, of clean-cut young college men come to say goodbye to ladies from far parts whom they knew in Reno while they (the ladies) were being accommodated on domestic matters by a State more sympathetic than most...