Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plymouth--"Whistling in the Dark." Ernest Truex. Superb, obvious, clean humor...
...good men and true for his Cabinet. These first-rank appointees then help him fill up the lower grades in their respective departments. Next to be found are the 32 members of the Sub-Cabinet ranging from the Undersecretary of State to the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. A clean sweep in the foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Director of the Mint, Director...
...ingredient of his victory. The Republican Progressives? Without them his sweep would have been the same. Such far-flung support would give him. if he chose to take it. extraordinary independence of action. He had a Congress overwhelmingly friendly in which to work his will. He started with a clean record, free from "sorehead" enemies in his own party or organized opposition from the Republicans. The country seemed ready and waiting for him to lead. Never before were the possibilities better for a Democratic Administration to get things done. The result seemed to depend upon the brand of statesmanship...
...Every British officer knows the story of the Australian Brigadier General in France during the War who read an announcement at evening parade: "Douggie Haig is coming down here tomorrow so you chaps better get your rifles clean for once and for God's sake don't call...
Music in the Air (words & music by Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern; Peggy Fears, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote historic Showboat, the team of Hammerstein & Kern has contrived an exquisite frieze of melody against the background of Bavaria, that good clean land with a song in its throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes...