Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to break down intelligence through weakness of character, and goodness through stupidity. All without success. You, O Men of Harvard, have remained intelligent, rich, and happy, the combination invincible. You live in a heaven Utopists have been dreaming about for centuries, companionship, games, regular, plentiful food and drink, clean, spacious housing, music everywhere you wish, no particular work, plenty of leisure for the pursuit of learning, splendid pedagogues, unbelievable intellectual facilities in the way of libraries, tutors, lectures...
Richard Morgan, IV '36 won all his bouts, taking two in the foil and two in the saber. Captain Phillip E. Lilienthal '36 won all three of his matches in foils, and Richard Ford '36, a member of last year's championship intercollegiate opee team, had a clean sweep in this event...
...characters are the "conferencier a la mode", who cannot practice what he preaches; love; the countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American...
...beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip to Europe, and might have blamed the Jews for that. Now, however, at most they demonstrated that they did not deserve so much...
...Washington, the Detroit Public Library-all of them handsome, elaborate, rich in borrowed decoration. On the Supreme Court Building, Chief Justice Taft gave him three orders: "The building must conform in design with the Capitol. It should be enduring. And Mrs. Taft says it should be easy to keep clean...