Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to do away with all this pomp and ceremony in everything." husked "Mitch." declaring that he will ask Ontario's Chief Justice to perform provincially viceregal functions. " I think the Lieutenant Governor should resign voluntarily. . . . The wonderful response to my appeal for clean government overwhelms...
...payments to the unemployed, he would "cut expenses in half." Coming out against the St. Lawrence seaway development he threatened to break Ontario's agreement with the Dominion to purchase St. Lawrence electric power developed on the Canadian site. "I promise a new deal," he cried, "and clean government!" On polling day Canadians cocked one eye upon Ontario, cocked the other upon Saskatchewan. Too grimly wrathful to throw eggs and tomatoes at their Conservative Premier J. T. M. Anderson, the smoldering sons of Saskatchewan were danged if they could see why they ever voted the Liberals out five years...
...Soviet success by Dmitri Shostakovich, in which the heroine is heckled into murder by her unhealthy bourgeois surroundings. Metropolitan box-holders who own the shabby old theatre below Times Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order to clean it up, modernize its equipment. Electrical engineers from New York's new Fire Prevention Bureau had found the ancient lighting system so dangerous that they threatened to withdraw the building's permit unless repairs were made. News of the heavy mortgage stilled all talk of a new Metropolitan...
...enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned to be rich. His mother was an important brewer's daughter...
...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...