Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis E. Townsend, as he arrived in Washington last week to "clean up this contempt business"-i. e., to serve a 30-day sentence for having walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...
Fortunately, "The Women," presented by Max Gordon at the Colonial, is not the cross-section of American womanhood that many claim it to be. It is good, not particularly clean, comedy. Embracing a cast of forty women and presenting the thesis that the fair sex has just one thing on its mind, the play tries more to amuse than convince...
...pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow...
Flanking Shean in the outfield will be two Varsity newcomers, Rud Hoye in right and Jo-Jo Soltz in left. Both are rated as heavy hitters with Soltz batting clean-up and Hoye sixth. While Soltz is an average fielder, Hoye has been mediocre to date and will have difficulty filling the shoes of Jim Sullivan...
...Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...