Word: spick-and-span
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When contacted last night, a member of the Buildings and Grounds crew refuted the steam tunnel theory. "The steam tunnels are spotless, spick-and-span, all painted white," he said. "I don't see how it's possible for roaches to reside there...
...casual European who puts his glass to his eye is likely to identify the U.S. today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
Last fortnight all kinds of Chicago artists, from spick-and-span dandies in automobiles to tatterdemalions trudging along with their paintings under their arms, began to arrive at the pier at the foot of Grand Avenue. A one-and-one-half-ton truck carted the pictures into the gallery and husky young Negroes hung them up. They needed more than two miles of wire, 5,000 nails. At the press preview a Chevrolet sedan traveling from one end of the line to the other was at the disposal of lazy or legweary newshawrks...
...puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...
Average size of the Turtle Islands is 1 mi. by ¼ mi. Total population: 220. Products: a few thousand dollars worth of turtle eggs and copra yearly. The British North Borneo Co. will continue to administer Turtle Island affairs until the U. S. sends out a spick-and-span new government...