Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...
Even before ballots were counted it was evident that to a large extent they could provide no clean-cut solution, so vigorously is Canada in ferment. Assuming, as most Canadians did before the count, a substantial victory for Mr. King & Liberals, they likewise assumed that he or any other Canadian who could conceivably become Premier now in coalition must steer a tortuous middle course: on one side are established bourgeois elements who still cast most of the ballots, and on the other the restive toilers who do not know what they want but are broadly out to soak the rich...
Present editor is a Harvardman named Howard V. L. Bloomfield. Under him Adventure maintains the Hoffman tradition: "A Man's Magazine. Clean and Decent. Free from sex. Action. Nothing in the decadent line." Clean and decent contributors to Adventure have included George Jean Nathan, Ellis Parker Butler, Konrad Bercovici, Octavus Roy Cohen. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Albert Payson Terhune. the late Edgar Wallace. It was the first U. S. magazine to sponsor Rafael Sabatini...
...evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
...jail, Publisher Rounsevell's face clouded. It brightened quickly when the court suspended sentence, put Publisher Rounsevell on a year's probation. With three other libel counts against him almost sure to be dropped, "N. R." could look with satisfaction upon a moral victory and a clean slate...