Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lull between luncheon and cocktails, Henri Charpentier, famed chef who says he invented Crepes Suzette, was musing in the spotless kitchens of his Rockefeller Center Cafe when a New York City marshal and six deputies scuffled through his door. With no respect at all for Henri or his little French pancakes, they shooed out his patrons, scattered his clamoring staff of 77, packed up his food and drink, evicted Henri himself in apron and chef...
...country houses, with screens, grilles, gateways, lanterns. Swords and armor are his hobby; in a few respects his reference library is supposed to equal that of the Metropolitan Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple grey building to which the armor collectors went last week seemed like a sort of New Deal blacksmith's heaven. There are showers and a roof where his 35 craftsmen and associates can take sun baths. Light pours in during the day and not far from the roaring...
...busy designing and ordering hostels and furniture. Said Pioneer Dickinson: "Our small hotels and guest houses will be dotted over the lesser known, completely unspoiled rural districts of Yugoslavia. Of course our buildings and furniture will follow Yugoslav tradition, but they will be modern and kept spotless...
Silk hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
...production has the ring of authenticity, the small details having been apparently well taken care of. Quite evident is the fact that the picture has been produced under the new "spotless" regime, there being nary a line that could bring even a blush to your grandmother's cheek. The nearest approach is by Mercedes (Elissa Landi) who, when in the course of a discussion of Dante's qualifications for marriage it was remarked that he "had no family," coyly retorted that she "would give...