Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
...swift lefts to the head. Walker tumbled like a nine pin, then bounced to his feet, straining every nerve to cut his big opponent down. In the second round hulking Max Schmeling, to his pained surprise, received a thunderstorm in the stomach. His eye was cut. It was a clean round for the little bulldog...
This report aroused varied emotions in the breasts of those responsible for the conduct of college athletics. There were some quick denials, but the facts in detail were always made available, and in the end the accuracy of the report was generally admitted. Some colleges proceeded to 'clean up', but in general this process, even when the intentions were of the best, has not been easy...
When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...
Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...