Word: uncleane
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...Harvard Lampoon, with the graciousness and condescension born of its longstanding victories over the CRIMSON's unclean hordes, and with the usual, useless request that said literary abortion and misconception--namely and to wit, CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corncobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon does, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenge the Harvard CRIMSON to its annual baseball game...
...Harvard Lampoon, with the graciousness and condescension born of its longstanding victories over the CRIMSON'S unclean hordes, and with the usual, useless request that said literary abortion and misconception--namely and to wit, CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corn-cobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon, I say, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenges the Harvard CRIMSON, to its annual...
...novel, Mr. Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald, those conceived by Thomas Hardy are a trio of well-intentioned, kindly old ladies taking afternoon...
...gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good red blood is not content with remaining red; it blackens before our eyes, while the banana skins rot in the middle distance, and an "unclean native smell" fills...
...toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...