Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward L. Doheny III (whose grandfather-in-law was Oilman Doheny of Teapot Dome fame) was out a $3,000 bracelet-strayed or stolen, she didn't know which. Police looked for a clean, well-lighted bauble prinked with 41 diamonds, 113 pearls...
...visitors sent three full teams into the Stadium yesterday afternoon to hold their final practice before actual combat. Following their retreat into Dillon Field House. Dick Harlow sent his clean-uniformed forces onto the same gridiron to pose for pictures and run through plays. If the opposition today is half as ferocious as the cameraman they faced yesterday, the game ought...
...calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters, they told me I was encouragin' the mice with...
...pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...