Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since he became Prime Minister, businesslike Neville Chamberlain has shown he meant to clean up what he considers the mess his predecessor Stanley-Baldwin made of British foreign policy. It was Stanley Baldwin's idea in 1935 to equip Great Britain in effect with two foreign secretaries: 1) a popular young idealist who could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs...
...Last week's 3,093 dog aristocrats paraded through their paces under the management of modest George Foley, professional superintendent of Westminster since 1928. He arranged benching, soothed disappointed exhibitors. His 125 white-uniformed attendants herded contestants from belowstairs kennels to main floor judging rings, kept the place clean, told inquisitive spectators the difference between boxers and bulls, between judges and exhibitors...
...like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...
...were scored in the last half of the final period with Maynard leading off at 11:42. Harding came up with his second of the afternoon less than a minute later. Morrison and Callon completed Toronto's string, the last tally coming at 19:15. The game was exceptionally clean with only two penalties being handed...
...Church. He was preparing his Sunday sermon and his wife sat quietly nearby. They were both slightly deaf, and when they heard a sound they said something about a motor backfiring. Presently Mrs. Lee went to bed. Then the .38 outside cracked again and Dr. Lee slumped down, shot clean through the temple...