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...striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their day's work in the diamond mine, they are alarmed to find their hovel spick-&-span...
...give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George...
...England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are no more fixed institutions than the London Times. But last week the Times moved. Funereal Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain punched a shiny newspaper press button, formally opened a spick & span Times printing annex which precedes the re-placement of the whole group of grim historic buildings around dingy Printing House Square, a block from the sluggish Thames in "the City...
Kitchens Are Spick and Span...
Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleansed. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures of all food are under constant check. No food is allowed to accumulate, to spell, or to be utilized as left-overs...