Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
...root and slippery elm bark for flavoring. Next morning an outdoor fire was made and the freshly scoured copper kettle swung into place. Cider on to boil, apples ready to add, and the bilin' was under way. Also ready was the long handle stirrer with a row of clean white corn husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long, by a relay of stirrers of which I was one. By the time the cows came home there was a grand accumulation of spicy, mahogany-colored apple butter ready...
...migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling $40,000,000 of WPA money in two years...
...State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely on how strongly Messrs. Hoffman and Powell live up to their promises to support him in the regular election...
...good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying the "mild profanity" and "slightly off-color stories" seemed rather funny...