Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate Jeremiah T. Mahoney as it had in Fusionist LaGuardia...
...hand, His Honor was the very picture of a modern labor-loving mayor. That he was A. L. P.'s mayor any more than he was Fusion's or the Republicans', however, Fiorello LaGuardia denied in one of his explosive bursts of advice: "Your party is clean now and has lofty principles, but it is hard to maintain these things. Every political party ought to be disbanded after 20 years...
Last week some 70 Moslems removed their shoes before climbing the stairs of their Brooklyn mosque, which until six years ago was a Tammany clubhouse, before that a Protestant church. Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star & crescent festooned with painted roses and daisies. This is natural since its swart, thick-accented Imam, Sam Rafilowich, son of an Imam in a Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane...
...here that the picture falls down, because artifice doesn't become Irene Dunn. She is best at good, clean kidding, and only when she breaks through with her own personality does the picture reach a high level of entertainment. Too often it tends to be vulgar, with a clumsy, unamusing vulgarity. In the last sequence, which would never have taken place if Cary Grant hadn't kept opening the door of their adjoining bed-rooms, Miss Dunn looks decidedly uncomfortable, as though she were wishing the picture would hurry...
...intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion, is a man who can make a gathering of people laugh with clean jokes, even if old ones, securing his laugh merely by his method of projecting his cleverness over the footlight...