Word: cleaned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms, another carpenters, another makes boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
That was before 1890. The South was more than 36% illiterate. Today the South is less than 5% illiterate. Hookworm is no more. Industry is doing well -booming, if you ask the people of North Carolina. Schools are many and clean and well-manned. Universities are larger and prouder...
...Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...
...telephoned each other. They decided to hire a suite of rooms at the Ritz-Carlton, near the Chrysler headquarters. And there for three days and nights they were alone. Waiters brought them food, awed attendants clean linen...
...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...