Word: clean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large the food was good all along our route, the hotels had plenty of clean towels and hot water (we supplied our own soap), and occasional nursemaids were available for the children, who can stand just so much sightseeing and no more. Our only fiscal misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted...
...tough, clean game all the way, with the final decision hanging fire until only a minute of play remained. Chip Gannon and Charley Roche played magnificently on both offense and defense; Howle Houston and Phil Isenberg lived up to the expectations of their first three games...
...tribute to Harvard that it did not retaliate in kind to this brand of play, and still managed to perform as effectively as they did. The lowly civilans from Cambridge never resorted to anything but football, and by keeping it clean they only added that much more to the already great credit they deserve...
...better. An officer introduced "Colonel Pitirim Nadski" to Brigadier General Omar T. Pfeiffer, chief of staff at Camp Pendleton. Pfeiffer and the colonel exchanged salutes and pleasantries. But when asked for his credentials, the colonel had none. He was politely whisked away for questioning. After two hours, he came clean; he was no Russian but Reporter John D'Alfonso of the San Diego Journal, wearing a uniform rented from a Hollywood costume shop. He had been assigned by his paper to test "security" at the maneuvers...
...Dinner," on which play Hart collaborated with the great comic genius, George S. Kaufman. But the new play is like the earlier masterpiece in that both shows hit their strides when they insult people. In "Light Up The Sky," directed by Hart himself, the insults come crisp and clean and funny. If Hart can now grease up the serious portions of the show, Broadway's big brass will be in for vigorous punishment for several months to come...