Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors milling impotently before bronze doors...
Acting honors of Girls in Uniform go to Florence Williams (Manuela), a young woman of sparse theatrical experience, discovered in R. H. Macy's department store. Cool, clean Rose Hobart (last seen in I Loved You Wednesday) as the beloved teacher tries desperately to apply astringent to a situation which often comes uncomfortably and needlessly close to abnormality...
...cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something is wrong with the maternity wards of general hospitals, and a great deal ought to be done about it. My recommendation is architectural and administrative isolation of the clean maternity, until more is known about the nature of puerperal infection...
...clean face produces no pimples...
...only near solution to the problem is that discovered by Detroit. There some philanthropist has established a "Penny Cafeteria," a restaurant which sells food at the price of one cent a dish. The place is clean and respectable, and it differs from soup kitchen in that those who patronize it suffer no more in morale than the patrons of the Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that...