Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William A. Sunday, Presbyterian evangelist, returned to Manhattan, lair of Liberals, for the first time since the War year when he came to clean up the "modern Babylon." Said...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...
...Pudding is out again, with a musical show that is much better than average, with a book containing some good lines, music that comes up to a high standard of red, white and blue syncopation, accurate dancing, clean, pretty costumes, a leading woman of uncommon excellence, and a spirit that is altogether exceptional. The leading woman is so darned good that it is a temptation to dismiss the production of "Laugh it Off" with the review, "Wilson, that...
...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
...reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove the cars. But what consternation pervaded their ranks when the autos were found locked and their owners either in class...