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Word: clean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keep It Clean. It has become customary in revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Tribute to Senator Warren's years was paid by Tennessee's Democratic Senator McKellar who wished him many happy returns of the day, recited his venerable record and said: "I take off my hat to him . . . make my bow in admiration of him . . . congratulate him on his clean and splendid life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriarch | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Saturnino Cedillo's grim forces continued to advance against him through the State of Jalisco. Among the corpses after one engagement was found the body of the Catholic General. Elated, General Cedillo wired President Fortes Gil that he would have the State of Jalisco wiped clean of Catholic rebels in ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Corpse in Jalisco | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

When her love "clears" by consummation, her art acquires clean, voluptuous curves, a well-defined posterlike quality. Suddenly, however, her art switches to violent angles and she casts out love. Then, tiring of angles, she decided to have a baby, curious to know what kind of art supplements motherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sextette | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...feel proud and happy to be a "V" student is the fact that we see a wonderful bunch of fellows out there on the field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They're clean players; they're young players; they're good players. What more can one ask? You who come to the games cannot help but enjoy them. Again we demand--What more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

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