Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international affairs he "did not want to be away from his desk for more than five days," after his study of the state of political affairs with Mr. Hurja his projected journey by last week had grown twice that long. To Washington he went for three days to clean up official business. But the three days dwindled...
...Republican dinner that night he further endeared himself to sportsmen by plumping strongly for wildlife conservation, promising to clean up the "mess and muddle" the New Deal had made...
...skilled operator, Dr. George Eliot Watts of Los Angeles, graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1895. In California, Dr. Watts, 62, was noted for his competency in performing abortions, for the invention of numerous surgical appliances useful in his specialty, including a suction pump to clean the uterus after an operation and a method of quickly reducing the uterus to normal size after an abortion...
Convivial George Wesley Bellows, producer of some of the greatest prize fight pictures ever painted or lithographed in the U. S., was clean-shaven, bald, dressed like a truckdriver. In his three years at Ohio State he was shortstop on the baseball team. His capacity for beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
...Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover. Charlie, whose ideal in life was expressed in Longfellow's lines, Make a house where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean, found his adulterous passion creating an impossible situation. So did his father who discovered his secret, died soon after All this was the substance of a matter-of-fact novel that won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize contest las week. Simple to the point of bleakness...