Word: spick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They say the King looks younger!"- breathlessly loyal Britons passed the word. Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been...
...Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long has the Chief Justice been troubled by the decline of criminal justice. Having set his own high court at the Capitol in spick-and-span order, he was ready to make suggestions to the President for judicial improvements else where...
...underdressed in the modern revue is met by the Messrs. Shubert in their latest effort. A girl-show which also brings forth Phil Baker, Jack Pearl, Shaw & Lee and Fred Hillebrand, may be accounted a balanced production. Moreover, besides all the homebred curves and complexions, there is a spick-and-Spanish dancer named Rosita Moreno...
Though Queen-Empress Mary must display impartial interest in hundreds of nursing homes, some intrigue her more than others. Particularly is Her Majesty known to approve of a certain super-spick-and-span nursing home in Berkshire...
...Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...