Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris Herald, eccentric foster child of the New York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like his father -who is the New York paper's chief editorial writer...
...priest and a Protestant minister on the set as technical advisers during production. But the story's Jewish father is still a pinchpenny, the Irish father is still a belligerent bullhead. It turns out, in 1946, that jokes about racial and religious groups are not really good, clean...
...what knocked the breath clean out of fur men last week was the news that Manhattan's Motty Eitingon Inc., the nation's largest single operator in furs, had filed in bankruptcy, begged for a six months' moratorium on its obligations. Eitingon (rhymes with biting gone), who had come a cropper once before in furs (in 1932 he had to reorganize after a $7,500,000 loss) had got himself in trouble again for the same reason-overexpansion...
...Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico's troubles could be solved in short order if only some New Dealer would come along, ease out the "big sugar interests" and clean up the noisome San Juan slums...
Madrid from Below. Barea's evocation of Madrid in the first years of the century has the childhood magic of minute particulars. He communicates not only the look of the city but the feel and smell of it: of sun-warmed horses, of dampened streets, of clean linen spread on balconies, of old furniture sweating beeswax in the heat...