Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rita Hayworth was picked by The League for Health Education as "the actress who best personifies clean, wholesome living." From a hyacinth field in Holland, where she was touring, came a picture of her rigorously personifying...
...anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout the war. He defines himself as an anti-Nazi "with a clean conscience." When someone made a joke about the paradox of his anti-Naziism and his Judas role, he said: "I find it pretty funny myself. One would expect at least the same [anti-Naziism] from Jesus Christ-but if it's not there, it's not there...
...months the horror programs that curdle the school-to-supper hours on the radio have been under attack from alarmed parents and teachers (TIME, March 24).*Last week radio was almost ready with its answer: a clean, bouncy transcribed program for children (aged three to ten), featuring Buddy Bear, "the most lovable and at the same time mischievous playmate a child ever had." Buddy's catch line: "Bobo ske deeton-dotten...
...days later the clean laundry was back in Hilo. Soon Dodds had more business than he could handle. By last week the Dodds Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was handling some 3,000 Ibs. of laundry and 50 suits a day at slightly higher prices than those of Hilo's closed laundry. A shirt cost 27?, against the old price of 23?, but sheets, at 10?, were the same. Dodds is currently grossing between $5,000 and $6,000 a month, netting...
...column last week, the Varsity tennis men again succumbed to a 7 to 3 defeat on Saturday at the hands of a powerful team of Graduates. The Grad team, composed of some of New England's ranking tours, took four of the seven singles matches before moving on to clean up three straight doubles matches...