Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with thrills, turned gradually away, began to leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean as an arrow the yellow body sped, disappeared into the curling yellow fumes, spattered upon Death Ledge 600 ft. below...
...County Chairman (Fox). "Day after election," says Will Rogers to his impeccable young law partner, "people don't come around and say: 'Did you conduct your campaign clean and digni-fied?' They come around and say: 'Boy, did you win?' Now that's politics in a nutshell...
...inhabitants of an English provincial town resulting from a swab left in the incision after an appendectomy. Miss Ashton, whose Dr. Serocold treated of 24 hours in the life of a physician, was herself a War nurse, holds a medical degree from the London Hospital. She writes with clean, surgical precision. Her description of the appendectomy has the brutal clarity of a hospital painting by the late Thomas Eakins...
...firm of Alexander & Green and counsel for Bankers Trust. With learned dignity he made his argument and, in spite of apparent difficulty in pronouncing sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have put a stig-" at that point his false teeth popped clean out of his mouth. He grabbed his plate, just as it reached the green baize table, shoved it back in his mouth, continued "stigma on the good name of the country...
...Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give each part of the Saar what each part of the Saar wanted; but the League urge to make some sort of a clean sweep decision on the whole Saar was almost irresistible. So absorbed in plebiscitiana was Radcliffe College's famed Miss Sarah Wambaugh, super-active U. S. member of the Plebiscite Commission, that she announced, "The most important result is clear-not whether the territory will go to one country or the other...