Word: dirtier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swill-grubbing beast has a dirtier mouth than man. Such is the humiliating opinion offered in last week's Journal of the American Dental Association by the University of Pennsylvania's Dentist Leonard Rosenthal and colleagues. They based their opinion on extensive researches, mostly at Philadelphia's zoo. They examined the saliva of one hippopotamus, two lions, one baboon, two elephants, one rhinoceros, 28 pigs, two horses, two chimpanzees, 50 dogs, eight cats...
Every summer the University fails to give several of its dormitory rooms the elemental care that they deserve. Every September a certain number of students return to College to find themselves lodged in sites with dirty walls and even dirtier ceilings. It is not uncommon in some of these rooms to find sizeable areas of peeling paint and bare plaster. Such conditions, in contrast with better kept accomodations, are unneccessary and distinctly unfair to the occupants...
...White is a very rich man and is spending large sums of money in his efforts to buy the Governor's office. I have never known a dirtier campaign to be waged against anyone for public office than the present one that is being waged against Paul Johnson. ... In my travels of 25 years with my husband, I have heard him denounce wealth, corporations and the money power. I have known his every thought during this time and understood his every move. I know he is not sincerely for Hugh White...
...serpent is forced underground again by the authorities, they might as well realize that he will return again and again, a little dirtier each time. Why not give the serpent a bath and recognize him as a pleasant and rather important member of society? John A. Strauss...
Fascinated by the question whether Parisians are dirtier than the citizens of Madrid, that outspoken Spanish daily La Voz commented last week thus: "Curious statistics recently gathered in Paris show an average of only two and three-quarter baths per year per Parisian. Surely in Madrid the average is not so low! Yet we urge the bath strongly as a daily practice of cleanliness. The Greeks and the Romans bathed often but under Christianity, which demanded austerity and deprecated beauty, the bath certainly declined in some countries. The results were uncleanly habits with which too many Spaniards are unhappily still...