Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis--"Seventh Heaven," Produced by John Golden at 8.15. "A clean comedy," containing a girl who hadn't been good' and an atheist...
...Clean, Wholesome...
...energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their semiweekly shirt sleeves clean. She herself kept trim and cheerful. In 1919 the gas company workers decided they wanted to strike. Mary talked to them like a mother and also like a "dutch uncle." They kept on working. Her ways with the public, with the company's 40,000 consumers, were always winning...
Before his marriage had come the curious episode of his supervision of the Nevada State's Prison, full of the toughest men that lived. He talked to them of ideals. They mocked. He abolished the lockstep. They did not object. He made the prison clean ("It doesn't cost the state anything to be clean," said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond...
...doubt as to where their duty lay. By way of showing that they understood exactly what was wanted, the jurors inserted a special clause in their verdict specifically declaring that Matteotti did not meet his death in consequence of his Parliamentary activities. Thus, officially, the crime was wiped clean of every atom of politics...