Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory of the sphere of government action to laugh the perpetrators of the absurdity to shame. It is allowed to take its place with the Kentucky anti-evolutionary teaching law the Kansas anti-cigarette bill, and the Zion City bye-laws as an expression of American democracy. The puerile "clean book" bills and the theatre censorship regulations of New York begin to appear truly dignified and truly American by the side of such bigoted officialism...
...although Berglund. Captain Dunker and Jones may be able to collect some stray points. Men like Went-worth of Colby in the 35-pound weight. Norton of Georgetown, in the high jump and shot put, and Bowen of Cornell, a record breaker in both weights last Saturday, will probably clean up in those events...
...feel that I speak as something of an authority on comedy," he continued, "and I have made it my aim to write good, clean comedy. It may not draw big crowds, but my own satisfaction is worth more...
...play jury composed of citizen playgoers seems to me an excellent innovation, but I am sorry the Theatre cannot clean up its own precincts. I shall go on urging clean plays, writing clean plays, and acting clean plays as my contribution. And I shall count every laugh as valuable...
...Blue scores came as the result of long shots from the sticks of Scott and Sargent, which each of these players followed up to cage goals on the rebounds. Jenkins was impregnable in the Yale goal, and repelled numerous hard shots to keep his team's slate clean throughout the evening...