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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages and employes of the Senate. He said to the pages: "Don't be 'hip flask' boys, and-I suppose I shouldn't say it, perhaps the chaplain should say this-don't smoke, don't swear and don't chew. Be clean; be yourself; stand against the crowd and you will amount to something." Charles G. Dawes received a note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Luncheon | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...used to do all the cooking and clean the house and help me with the washing. He scrubbed and wrung the clothes. Then we used to sit in front of the radio when there was a fight broadcast and hug each other when his man was winning. . +. Oh, he was a fine boy. He wouldn't hurt anyone. . . . Just mischievous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louis Phal | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

Miss Foster plays a gypsy miss who falls in love with a young man in a clean shirt and plus fours. Her hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched family. Matters are further mangled by a gypsy lover, who hopes to solve the situation by poking a knife through the breast pocket of the intruding clean shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

...Change the water every twelve hours, but remember that too sudden a change of temperature may kill the fish. Therefore pour off only haK of the old water and add the same amount of cool, clean water. Fill the cans not more than three-quarters full, as too much water does not leave enough room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fish v. Oyster | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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