Word: spick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the ward was empty. Hospital officials had opened a spick & span one in a new building on the quadrangle.* They hunted a key to fasten the doors. There was no key. The doors during 58 years had never been locked...
...Varese, Italian air port, famed airman Major di Bernardi taxied out on the flying field in a huge, spick-and-span, new plane. A man-child of 11 climbed nervously into the passenger's cockpit, was securely strapped...
...Utica, Herkimer, Ravenna, Kingston, Newburgh, West Point there were crowds, cheers, songs, handshakes, little girls, gladioli, more movies by Mrs. Coolidge. At Weehawken, Manhattan Transfer, Pennsylvania Junction only a few trainmen gazed on the special and its precious cargo. At midnight the President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived at a spick and span White House, tired, happy...
...hard, for one who lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug...
...Building was also in the mind of President Thomas D. Boyd on the opening day at Louisiana State University. In his spick and span office in the University's new $5,000,000 "plant" south of Baton Rouge, he conferred with railway officials upon the building of a three-track spur to the entrance of the football arena...