Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago, Dr. Straton, in his evening sermon used the word vice. His point: "However clean, personally, the Democratic candidate may be, and however innocent he may have been of any deliberate intention to give aid and comfort to the forces of vice, lawlessness, and drunkenness, nevertheless, because he is the type of politician he happens to be and because his sympathies and the judgments of his heart are with the liquor crowd and the hangers-on of the liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore...
...bore with her infidelity. Whether the difference in the two generations is an advance in civilization or a deterioration in force of character, Mr. Galsworthy rather emphasizes the latter by Jon's vague back-to-nature farming venture, and Michael's disarming but nonetheless softy campaign to clean up the slums. Somehow the younger generation hasn't quite the stamina of old Soames, cynical, Victorian, who puts an indelible stamp on his generation...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...
...They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen in the sun, in the heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come out to see the gladiator's show. But from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon...
...much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories, in the case of the enraged reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, on ". . . today's developments in the clash between purveyors of dramatic filth and the clean-minded majority of San Franciscans...