Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor (with the help of four servants) keeps Billy's homes as antiseptically clean as a swimming pool. He calls her "the Sapolio Kid" and "one of the two greatest gals of the century" (the other: Fanny Brice). Eleanor doesn't think much of Billy's paintings, but he takes them as seriously as he has taken all his other equalizers...
...more fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled...
...visitors boast no less than five regulars who are hitting above .290, while the Varsity's only .300 hitter is Walt Coulson, whose average is .345. For Cornell, clean-up hitter Frank McArthur's average is .409, Bill Arrison is at .400, John Cordes .389, Lou Daukas .304, and John Skawski...
...weekend's athletic clean sweep included even the hitherto unfortunate Varsity tennis team, which burned up the Business School courts with five singles and one double win to upset Dartmouth...
Cabinet ministers visiting Yen's headquarters in the dusty village of Tinghsien found that the people had learned not only to read, but to keep their village clean, grow bigger & better crops. Yen's rule: "While we aim to create a new society, we must not forget we are doing it with an old society...