Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME indeed guessed wrong as to Cinemogul Skouras' intentions, thanks him for setting the record straight on Forever Amber's "clean...
...father brought from Irrreland. At the Stevens, Phil had suddenly to fill in for Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie," who was ill with laryngitis. The patrons had come expecting to hear Dorothy's leering Feudin' and Fightin', and got nothing but Phil Regan's clean Irish ballads. But they too kept calling for more...
...Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really bare and the lips compressed...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
...Parents' Association at Manhattan's Public School 54 had had enough. Last week they hired a lawyer and prepared to force the New York school board to one of two choices: clean up their school, or close it down as a menace to health. Their complaints...