Word: clean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning to let visitors wander into the governor's mansion. He appoints "colonels" with a lavish hand (some 250 to date) and presents lesser fry with penknives-after first exacting a penny so "a friendship won't be cut." He enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti-Long New Orleans Item, and spent the afternoon spitting...
...gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion of the new yuans, and to back them up by a stern clean-up of speculators, hoarders and black marketeers...
...Clean Living. In Los Angeles, nine rooming-house tenants complained in court that Landlady June Gilbert not only charged exorbitant rents but persisted in sleeping in the bathtub...
...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...
...board would let him clean house "without handcuffs," and do some streamlining, he would personally foot any losses for the year (obviously he didn't think there would be any). Billy would "introduce modern lighting, staging, choreography and certain other elements of present-day stagecraft . . . without tampering with what is fine and traditionally right about grand opera." He also thought he could "fire and enthuse the staff into doing a more exciting job"-and the Met could certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch...