Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone is a conservative who turned liberal in the rarefied air of the Supreme Court. New Hampshire-born and Amherst-educated, he was a great teacher of law at Columbia until Calvin Coolidge called him to Washington to be Attorney General and clean up the Department of Justice after the Ohio Gang. In 1925 he was advanced to the Supreme Court where "Holmes, Brandeis & Stone dissenting" from conservative majority opinion became a familiar news...
Museum officials have also been cleaning some Chinese wall paintings, almost a thousand years old, which have been taken in pieces from the walls of caves. First the ancient pigment film is given a thorough cleansing and several layers of Japanese tissue and muslin are glued to the clean surface...
...starting gun there were cheers for Balko. He was husking in his own State and in a familiar stand of corn. His rivals went down their rows ahead of him, but Balko was picking his corn carefully, husking it clean...
...this drama of polite neuroses were that Hollywood has not yet run out of battle scenes, and that no matter how plentiful the circumstantial evidence, a good woman has yet to be convicted. As the prosecuted Elinor Norton, Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked and otherwise unstable British husband, whose demise provides Miss Rinehart with a court-room scene and a paralleled denouement. Of all the picture's conclusions, the plainest was that Miss Trevor is worthy of better things than the forcible...
Rice, unbeaten Southwest Conference leader, kept its slate clean by defeating Texas Arts & Industrial...