Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People Relax Me." At 48, he is a smiling, relaxed man with a knack of getting along with his fellow workers, most of whom call him Dave. He is a voracious reader, with a lightning mind, makes notes in clean, clear Gregg shorthand. He has not smoked since he lost his voice chain-smoking three packs in a row during an all-night conference with Wendell Willkie. He drinks sparingly: occasionally one Martini, rarely more...
...picture does have bad moments--most of them coming in the unfolding of the love story, which was frail stuff in the novel, too. The hero's adulterous affair, which was originally a succession of mildly immoral, quite dull interludes, has been scrubbed shiny clean by the conversion of the gal into an impeccably, impossibly genteel widow woman. Gable contrives to melt this Pallas Athena, Deborah Kerr, by fondling her tots and growling to her when they are not around, "A weekend in the country with separate rooms and sailboats on the water--that's for us, huh, honey? That...
When Arthur still refused to serve in the Army, he was imprisoned again. His father traveled hundreds of miles to prisons all over the country, taking him clean clothing, cozening prison officials to allow him a few words with his son. Released, he went back to Maerdy, resumed his organizing work. "He was a bloody nuisance to everybody," said one of his critics. "Maerdy was run like a blasted Soviet." Soon Maerdy became known as Little Moscow...
Steaks & Grog. Morgan* and his crew arrived in high spirits, having dipped into the ship's grog supply to celebrate. Unlike the haggard crews aboard other ships, the Dolphin's men were tanned, clean shaven and immaculate in shorts and blue jerseys. They boasted that they had slept eight hours a day most of the time, had never been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They...
Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...