Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
...earth, minerals, birds, animals, plants, insects, geography, history. They observe families of mice, model in clay, peer through microscopes, take apart models of flowers under the supervision of adult "docents.''* Patrons may borrow exhibits to take home. Only rule is that they must handle them with clean hands. The museum provides soap and water...
AUGUSTA, Ga.--Saub-nosed Patty Berg of Minneapolis today made a clean sweep of the three annual titlist championships played thus far by winning this year's tournament with an aggregate...
Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...
...managing editor of the defunct Chicago Post, swart, husky Michael Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...