Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion's Societe des Quarante et Huit Chevaux, official custodians of the huge quantity of fun and frolic that is to be showered on the convention of some 200,000 Legionnaires. Only blue-nosed New Yorkers--if such there be--will resent the audible expressions of good, clean fun, and by the time the last Legionnaire entrains for home, New York will have forgotten just who was making all the noise...
Deeply disturbed, Cliatt gets him out and gradually becomes the local protagonist for civil liberties. Cliatt's attempts to rouse the people to their peril ends up in a drubbing at a revivalist meeting from which only Cliatt's conscience emerges clean and whole. A-Revolutionary War episode at Fredericksville is neatly interlaced to provide the historical perspective of the little man struggling almost alone for the common good...
Next to Godliness. In Victoria, B.C., Witness Nora Johnstone daintily declined to kiss the court's Bible because "it might not be clean," dipped into her handbag for her own tissue-wrapped Bible...
...should be done as a cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt and back with rice, Captain Illingworth remembers now. "It was a hard life and a good life," he says, "and I like to think there will never be a better...
...buccaneering 3rd Earl of Cumberland. Besides portraits of courtiers, there were miniatures of a lovesick youth leaning against a tree, entangled in roses; a grave young man fingering a locket against a background of flames. Their flesh tones had faded, but they still shone with immaculate drawing, clean, jewel-like color, and a fine use of lace and ornament to produce a sharp, flat pattern...