Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Emanuel Smith last week announced that in each & every one of the men, Republican or Democratic, now suggested for P'residential nomination, "There is nothing ... to get very enthusiastic about." Said he: "The kind of a President that is needed . . . who would go in and clean up this mess, would be about as popular as Gillette at a barbers' convention...
...other light fictioneers, popular, saturnine Artist Brown made a cool Wall Street million before it melted down in 1929. At 58 he says he is doing it again. Other illustrators like to kid Brown about his draftsmanship, but the laugh is on them. There is some quality in his clean-cut youths and pretty girls that fits the American Dream...
...Coon points out that in judging racial differences, laymen are likely to be unduly influenced by styles in clothing, hair and beards. He prints a picture of Neanderthal Man as he might look with a haircut, clean shave and modern clothes (see cut, p. 51), showing that he might get by today on the tough side of town without attracting attention as an oddity...
...fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...
...Automotive Maintenance Show in the New York Port Authority Building, an oldtime garage man from Chicago, Ralph L. de Gayner, astonished dealers and jobbers by gunning out clean little landscapes in five minutes each. Gunner de Gayner never knew David Siqueiros, but he had the same inspiration about seven years ago, has been getting so good at his specialty (pictures of clipper ships) that several have been sold. "The artists still think it's cheese," said he, "but dealers sell it and that's the big thing. I wouldn't be caught dead with a brush...