Word: spick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discipline is Annapolis-strict: cadets keep their own quarters as spick as at the Academy. On their weekly "town liberty" they may not smoke on the street, or drink a beer at Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street, they have but one thought: to get through and done with Chapel Hill, get on to Primary, Intermediate, and Operational Training Stations, toward the fine day when they lift a Hellcat or a Corsair off a carrier...
What Loewy's staff thinks a railroad station should be is exemplified in two brand-new, spick & span stations of the Pennsylvania, designed by Loewy Architect Lester Claude Tichy, which last week awaited only a job of spring landscaping before making their full-dress bow to the traveling public. These stations (at Edgewood, Md. and Ridley Park, Pa.) are as light, airy and cheerful as a country-club terrace...
After three days of this, he went foxhunting on a Pennsylvania estate (where he turned up in brown jodhpurs and black boots among spick & span U. S. fox hunters in long-buttoned pink coats). Then he returned to Washington, to get on with his diplomatic calls, his conferences with State Department officials, his talks with the Embassy staff and members of British missions, and to go on at night with his reading of Sandburg's Lincoln and Freeman...
...Spick and span in grey suit, blue shirt and tie, and looking in the best of ruddy British spirits, Bertrand Russell came back to Harvard yesterday for his first long visit since...
Oldest of Ogontz prizes is the "Whisk-Broom Neatness" award. To girls whose rooms are spick-&-span go silver brooms engraved: "Order is Heaven's first law." This year's 16 whisk-broom winners were applauded by many a broom-winner mother and grandma (80% of the students are related to graduates) in the audience...