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Wholesomeness Armstrong, Jack “the all-American boy.” [Radio: Buxton, 121–122] widower and widow marry, producing an instant, wholesome family of eight. [TV: Terrace, I, 115] annual beauty contest features wholesome contestants. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 56–57] series portraying the wholesome, American family. [TV: “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in Terrace, I, 34]
poor, rural family in the 1930s; they extol chastity, honesty, family unity, and love. [TV: Terrace, II, 418] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The air was mouldy and heavy with decay, while strings of fish-tails and of half-cleaned dog and crocodile skulls did not add to the wholesomeness of the place. To these flourishing resolutions, which briefly recounted the general utility of education, the political and geographical rights of the village of Templeton to a participation in the favors of the regents of the university, the salubrity of the air, and wholesomeness of the water, together with the cheapness of food and the superior state of morals in the neighbor hood, were uniformly annexed, in large Roman capitals, the names of Marmaduke Temple as chairman and Richard Jones as secretary. ``I have been in Palestine, Sir Clerk,'' said the knight, stopping short of a sudden, ``and I bethink me it is a custom there that every host who entertains a guest shall assure him of the wholesomeness of his food, by partaking of it along with him. |
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