Word: uncleanly
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...consider old stories which gained fresh currency upon the death nearly five years ago of Father Damien's zealous, self-sacrificing successor, Brother Joseph Dutton (TIME, April 6, 1931). Brother Joseph died at 87, untouched by leprosy. Why, some wondered, did Father Damien contract it? Was he unclean? Soon after Father Damien died a Honolulu Presbyterian missionary named C. M. Hyde wrote a colleague that, among other things, the leper priest "was not a pure man in his relations with women." This statement, published in Australia, evoked from Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson a bitter rebuttal which may well...
...Orthodox Jewish rabbis. For ten hours these bearded men of God prayed and pondered. Before them was a question involving what is most dear and holy to pious Jews-kosher food. Long have the rabbis charged that in New York City's poultry markets much trefah (unclean) fowl is foisted upon Jews as kosher. A mediator appointed by Mayor LaGuardia recommended that plombes (lead seals) be attached to kosher fowl as they are to kosher meats; that a tax of iff per fowl be levied to defray costs of vigilant inspection. The city poulterers rejected the plan, called...
...This cake of soap is morally unclean!" (displaying it). ''Such cakes are selling in London today 1½ each?a price which British producers find utterly impossible to meet. They are made in Russia," (pause) "under conditions which violate the standards of the world! . . . The appalling conditions of slave labor there, . . . the horrors perpetrated there, are greater than any known in modern times...
...Lowell regime with regard to publicity has been ill-advised and unsuccessful is to express a platitude. And to expect that any true reform has been effected would be over optimistic. But the present case at least indicates that publicity is not being consistently ignored like a thing unclean as has been so often the case in the past...
...referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone for "Mabel" and dropping in informally while inebriated. At the end of two hours of unclean fun, the youngest daughter is betrothed to the local vicar's son-whose first appearance in the house was as a customer-and the situation has been clarified to the satisfaction of all. Acting honors were shared by Ferdinand Gottschalk, 61-longtime mummer, playwright (Nanette, The Love Letter...