Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, he added, "That we made a clean-cut effort to bring about that united action of management and labor, which is one of the high purposes of the recovery...
...Afghans are probably the world's most violent people. They kill strangers for a small breach of etiquet. When Afghan kings really dislike a man, they boil him in oil or strangle him with chains. The only possessions an Afghan keeps clean are his rifle, his sling of cartridges, his short dagger and his bayonet sword...
...were the executives of Manhattan's smart department store, Saks Fifth Avenue. They ordered the new type from Mr. Goudy and shared in its name-Saks-Goudy (see cut). Typographers who saw examples of Saks-Goudy last week noted that it belonged to the Goudy "family," found it clean, clear, romantic. Hereafter all Saks Fifth Avenue advertisements will be printed in Saks-Goudy. What Saks Fifth Avenue paid Mr. Goudy for designing a new face remained a secret last week but typographers thought $2,000 to $2,500 a fair estimate...
...fourth floor of Winthrop House, somewhat out of sorts with the world just now because it is shedding its bluish-grey skin, but still "very good-natured and clean," coils G. Edgav Folk's healthy specimen, perfectly willing to show off to visitors by wrapping itself around its master's arm while its darting tongue increases its tempo...
...about that? I've had just about every thing else in here but never one of these," he remarked to the lady who had brought in the tortoise. She had come asking for a professor who would tell her more about the shelled creature, which she said was "very clean and has the run of the house...