Word: spotlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant. Nothing can more quickly destroy an officer's influence and efficiency than untidy habits of dress or deportment. The chaplain's bearing should be smart and alert, his address prompt and to the point... .Some officers, and unfortunately some of them were chaplains, have spoiled otherwise spotless records by saying or doing tactless things. ... It goes without saying that a chaplain should be possessed of personal integrity and exemplary habits, and should be a man of religious experience with pious instincts and a fervor for service. . . . ' Training Manual, U. S. Army, prepared under the direction...
...night last week was up in its seats, streaming toward the exits past the array of jabbering freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair...
...long last "Parker v. Tribune" went to the jurymen after Mr. Parker had addressed them for the greater part of a day. Cried Promoter Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion...
...real or exaggerated grievance, the rest of the remedy must be supplied by the team itself. The ideology of professionalism,--of taking every advantage of the enemy, whether foul of fair,--has no place in Harvard athletics. And it is up to the coaches, who have been far from spotless in the past, to set an example of sportsmanship to their charges, as well as to inspire them with the lust...
...ability than the political transients who serve as His Majesty's Ministers, the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister Baldwin, after ordering Sir Christopher dismissed, made a ringing public announcement. "I am glad to observe," cried John Bull in the flesh, "that no question of corruption was involved...