Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
...crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they could not drive them for fear of losing one of their two suits of old sails, losing all the voyage's small margin...
...great decline. Thereafter every few months Mr. Mitchell would dig more stock certificates from his strong box, send more fat bundles to the House of Morgan to bolster the loan. Into the Morgan vaults, batch by batch, went tens of thousands of shares. When his strong box was clean he turned over mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan & Co. $5,852,538.38 which the collateral fails to cover by about $1,000,000. Mr. Steuer makes the point that because of an unselfish effort to avert a disastrous crash in City Bank shares...
...tents in neat company streets. In each tent were placed eight cots, eight pairs of blankets, eight mess kits. Electric lights were strung up. Latrines were dug. Army kitchens and mess halls were built. Shower shacks were constructed and water hydrants provided, with laundry boards. From Washington to this clean, dry camp were escorted nearly a thousand members of the Veterans Expeditionary Force and told to make themselves at home. As host, the Army supplied three thumping big meals a day. In a large convention tent the bonuseers were to hold their meetings, make their demands for immediate cash payments...
...These flames do not only illuminate the final end of the old etra, they also light up the new. Never before have the young men had so good a right to clean up the debris of the past. . . . The old goes up in flames, the new shall be fashioned from the flame in our hearts. ... As you had the right to destroy the books, you had the duty to support the government. The fire signals to the entire world that the November revolutionaries have sunk to earth and a new spirit has arisen...