Word: spotlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...
...Norton's pride" and house beauty of other times); Memorial Hall, where great men in their inconspicuous youth have taken their meals and later in its theatre spoken greatness or received honoring degrees; the Freshman dormitories (Lowell's dream, Lowell's babies), the new school of Business Administration the "spotless town" of the forgotten advertisements made actuality by five Baker millions; Soldiers Field, Higginson's gift its stadium the focus of all conscious competition with other universities; the Medical School and its beneficent brood of hospitals the Arnold Arboretum miles away hundreds of acres of rare and exquisite shrubs...
...Ledge. Four business partners hold a sombre "conference. One of them has stolen some of the firm's securities and the evidence points to the handsome, heretofore spotless Richard Legrange. Bearing in mind the ordeals by fire and water with which savage tribesmen test virtue, the businessmen devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole...
...Ellis, former Exeter star and veteran Eli back who won the favor of the New Haven fans when he caught Tommy Longnecker's fateful, pass in the Dartmouth game and streaked 88 yards to a score, thus keeping Yale's spotless record over the Green unblemished...
...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...