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  • Not for nothing was the word "latrine-rumour" invented; these places are the regimental gossip-shops and common-rooms. We feel ourselves for the time being better off than in any palatial white-tiled "convenience." There it can only be hygienic; here it is beautiful. These are wonderfully care-free hours.   (source)
    hygienic = cleanliness promoting the prevention of illness
  • "I think there was some problem with hygiene in that muddy place," says my father.†   (source)
  • There's only one bathroom with a broken lock and, unlike many of the safe houses, there's no shower, so personal hygiene is put on hold the moment they arrive.†   (source)
  • Madam Pomfrey, however, felt it might not be very hygienic, and confiscated it.†   (source)
  • Anything but little girls with dirty knees and their fingers up their noses: about matters of personal hygiene she was fastidious.†   (source)
  • Nobody, except for the macrame teacher, Pat, ever talked to me, so I had no motivation to risk humiliation in exchange for hygiene.†   (source)
  • I had recognized the look of pity from the hygienist at the low-income dental clinic.†   (source)
  • But I have excellent personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • In conspiratorial whispers, with shocking details to back up his claim, he assured us that the French had very low standards of personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • I chose not to think about the chicken factory and how somewhere, deep within its bowels, there was probably a set of plastic overalls and a hygiene cap with my name still on them.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes, the hygiene lesson," Kate said disgustedly.†   (source)
  • The crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family.†   (source)
  • He wasn't repelled, but he tried not to be overly curious, which meant that we disrobed with the lights out and confined ourselves, that first time, to hugging, kissing, and an insertion that seemed, more than anything, practical and hygienic.†   (source)
  • Like personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • That first week while my classmates dozed off, I obsessively worried about the hygiene of the linoleum floor.†   (source)
  • The probationers were initiated into the cult of hygiene.†   (source)
  • The ventilation system was not designed for so many people, and everyone had been working every waking moment without much time for personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • But for some reason his deteriorating hygiene pushed against his mind, causing horrific thoughts.†   (source)
  • "Wonderful—I've got a roommate with a terminal hygiene problem …."†   (source)
  • More emphasis on hygiene.†   (source)
  • Every small effort at hygiene was magnified by hours of labor spent procuring the simplest elements: water, heat, anything that might pass for disinfectant.†   (source)
  • Clarence Darrow regularly walked the short distance from his office in the Rookery to Hull House, where he was admired for his intellect and social empathy but disparaged, privately, for his slovenly dress and less-than-exemplary hygiene.†   (source)
  • Was he thanking her for being available in fifteen minutes, or thanking her, grimly, for an unwanted level of hygienic intimacy?†   (source)
  • It's easy, it's hygienic, and it's legal.†   (source)
  • The overworked, often illiterate workers in the nation's slaughterhouses do not always understand the importance of good hygiene.†   (source)
  • The usual rumors abound of sexual freedom, sexual slavery, drugs, nudity, mind control, poor hygiene, tax evasion, monkey-worship, torture, prolonged and hideous death.†   (source)
  • Purely for hygienic reasons, this quarter was to be surrounded by a wall so that typhus and other Jewish diseases could not spread to other parts of the city.†   (source)
  • The film kept talking about growth spurts and acne problems caused by working in the forges, and proper flipper hygiene, and finally it was over.†   (source)
  • "Everything here is very hygienic, you're in very good hands," Cayleese says.†   (source)
  • He had had it removed for hygienic reasons: the bathtub was another piece of abominable junk invented by Europeans who bathed only on the last Friday of the month, and then in the same water made filthy by the very dirt they tried to remove from their bodies.†   (source)
  • There were eleven of us girls from the magazine, together with most of our supervising editors, and the whole staff of the Ladies' Day Food Testing Kitchens in hygienic white smocks, neat hairnets and flawless makeup of a uniform peach-pie color.†   (source)
  • Personal hygiene, she called it.†   (source)
  • So during the age when Mother was exposing us to certain facts of life, like personal hygiene, proper posture, table manners, good restaurants and tipping practices, Daddy Clidell taught me to play poker, blackjack, tonk and high, low, Jick, Jack and the Game.†   (source)
  • Epidemics of the illness usually occur after social upheavals, in the ensuing overcrowding, poor hygiene, and malnutrition.†   (source)
  • Are you careful about hygiene?†   (source)
  • Both, for example, were fastidious, very attentive to hygiene and the condition of their fingernails.†   (source)
  • Her mother-to her credit-had rearranged court dates so that she could watch Josie be plaque in the school dental hygiene play, or hear her five-note solo in the Christmas chorale.†   (source)
  • The elf's quarters were barren except for those few essentials necessary for food, hygiene, and the pursuit of an intellectual life.†   (source)
  • "I'd definitely need to focus more on my hygiene."†   (source)
  • The rest of us just sat back and tuned out his impassioned speech on the importance of good hygiene.†   (source)
  • It was necessary to schlep all your hygiene products to the bathroom—shampoo, soap, razor, washcloth, and whatever else you might need.†   (source)
  • Then there is personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • Anybody accustomed to dilapidated African hospitals would be astonished, for it gleams in the afternoon sun and has the hygiene and efficiency of a Western hospital.†   (source)
  • Dawn of his sixth morning in captivity found Mortenson's eyes tearing up over an ad for a WaterPik Oral Hygiene Appliance.†   (source)
  • The woman broke into a big smile and led him to feminine hygiene.†   (source)
  • Instead, most were bright and airy, run by thoughtful, reflective middle-aged men or women in suits who went to great pains to prove their facilities were more hygienic than most homes and that the staff was courteous, caring, and professional.†   (source)
  • She gave up, apparently, all interest in table manners or hygiene, but acquired a deep concern for and about human relationships.†   (source)
  • Fell within the acceptable limits in terms of personal hygiene (i. e., aftershave and cologne yes, mousse and fake tan, no).†   (source)
  • The gunslinger had followed the man in black across the desert for two months now, across the endless, screamingly monotonous purgatorial wastes, and had yet to find spoor other than the hygienic sterile ideographs of the man in black's campfires.†   (source)
  • I tried to linger over the rituals of hygiene.†   (source)
  • Anyway, this afternoon, for some reason, Miss Wilson got talking about personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • "And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order."†   (source)
  • It was small, enclosed, and full of other people, all of them better dressed and significantly more hygienic than the bird kids.†   (source)
  • That is the real soul-sickness, the spear in the side, the drag by the neck through the mob-angry town, the Grand Inquisition, the embrace of the Maiden, the rip in the belly with the guts spilling out, the trip to the chamber with the deadly gas that ends in the oven so hygienically clean-only it's worse because you continue stupidly to live.†   (source)
  • Grace sat down again and the prosthe-tist bounced through a list of maintenance and hygiene tips.†   (source)
  • I had enough clothes to go a week between washing, and the basic hygiene necessities.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, he thought, there was this boy's mother, who had trembled with protective concern over his groping steps, while teaching him to walk, who had measured his baby formulas with a jeweler's caution, who had obeyed with a zealot's fervor the latest words of science on his diet and hygiene, protecting his unhardened body from germs-then had sent him to be turned into a tortured neurotic by the men who taught him that he had no mind and must never attempt to think.†   (source)
  • It was like I had stepped into a time machine and been sent back a few thousand years to an age when people built their world out of anything they could get their hands on…and didn't care much for personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • Petrie, our elderly PE teacher, who seems more interested in our hygiene than in our physical fitness.†   (source)
  • The infirmary was of course a model of hygiene and efficiency, which I was most willing to maintain for him, despite his sometimes searing criticisms in this very room (and in front of others), which were aimed not at my specific conduct but at the legacies of my "training" and "background"—the ultimate question being of my ethos, as it were, a term (from his brief university schooling in England) that he seemed to employ often, for my edification.†   (source)
  • How would I have guessed that during my last hours I would sit on a rock in the starlight, in mountain laurel, explaining sexual hygiene to an apprentice in a propeller factory.†   (source)
  • Sarah used to say it was gross to wear someone else's old swimsuit, but it's actually perfectly hygienic if you wash it a few times before you wear it.†   (source)
  • Why are you so interested in my personal hygiene?†   (source)
  • When she returned, she had the particular facial expression that her eldest daughter, Boo Boo, had once described as meaning one of only two things: that she had just talked with one of her sons on the telephone or that she had just had a report, on the best authority, that the bowels of every single human being in the world were scheduled to move with perfect hygienic regularity for a period of one full week.†   (source)
  • I was meticulous in my hygiene procedures with Patient Zero.†   (source)
  • Mind you, if you're kinky for Northern Hygienic, as I am, you can't find anything much more compelling than a Scottish Lady Dentist.†   (source)
  • Among my other disheveled qualities was apparently an inattention to personal hygiene, hence I soon became known as Stinky.†   (source)
  • At first it had been mental hygiene, protection of his morale.†   (source)
  • She wanted everything to be very hygienic.†   (source)
  • And they obviously aren't hygienic about it.†   (source)
  • The informational hygiene measures practiced by the Jews kept it suppressed.†   (source)
  • Everyone in this village knows more about hygiene than we do, we have lately discovered.†   (source)
  • He'd raised the bar on his personal hygiene in a lot of areas.†   (source)
  • That has to be related to the hygiene lesson, don't you think?"†   (source)
  • It would imply she was returning to the bathroom, for some unnamed hygienic emergency.†   (source)
  • Hygiene became a matter of small consequence.†   (source)
  • The result of poor hygiene on a starving body at the end . of its tether.†   (source)
  • Kissing looks like too much of somebody else's dental hygiene if you ask me.†   (source)
  • Right away I had food in mind, not animal hygiene.†   (source)
  • We were all about hygiene here in Valhalla.†   (source)
  • She had terrible personal hygiene, plus extreme—ah, digestive issues.†   (source)
  • I let my personal hygiene go to Helheim.†   (source)
  • A dental hygienist by the name of Anita Kaspersson left her home by car at 7:30 this morning.†   (source)
  • The room smelled of a man who was not taking good care of his hygiene.†   (source)
  • Take it to the privy when I do my hygiene.†   (source)
  • Poor hygiene and lack of clean drinking water were the culprits, he said.†   (source)
  • At least we had feminine hygiene items, all emblazoned with Bob Barker's name.†   (source)
  • That can't be hygienic with all the animal droppings."†   (source)
  • Just put your pajamas and personal hygiene in a bag or box and bring it to school on Friday.†   (source)
  • Looks to me as if this was a test of personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • Everywhere we went, we would tell people to use better hygiene.†   (source)
  • I pray it's nothing to do with personal hygiene or her and Dad's relationship problems.†   (source)
  • I was pretty sure he was the minor deity Bad Hygiene.†   (source)
  • If you don't have good personal hygiene, or access to medicine I guess—"†   (source)
  • We shared eight numbers instead of names, prison khakis, cheap food and hygiene items.†   (source)
  • Everything came out of our prison accounts hygiene items, phone calls, fines.†   (source)
  • Considering their slovenliness, their casual approach to personal hygiene and adornment, they ought to have fainted at the attention.†   (source)
  • Harald Vanger studied medicine in Uppsala and landed almost immediately in circles that were obsessed with race hygiene and race biology.†   (source)
  • This was the time of hygiene lectures, and of practicing blanket-baths on life-size models—Mrs. Mackintosh, Lady Chase, and baby George whose blandly impaired physique allowed him to double as a baby girl.†   (source)
  • It assumes that no one taught you anything about physical fitness, personal hygiene, or personal finances.†   (source)
  • E. coli 0157:H7 is shed in the stool, and people infected with the bug, even those showing no outward sign of illness, can easily spread it through poor hygiene.†   (source)
  • Did you ever get an erection from a dental hygienist rubbing against your arm while she cleaned your teeth?†   (source)
  • Once infected, he stood a better than average chance of coming down with the active disease—because of poor hygiene, inadequate nutrition, the prevalence of other illnesses in jail.†   (source)
  • She did it without the shadow of a doubt, in the full certainty that her husband would have approved, and not only for reasons of hygiene.†   (source)
  • A trustee steps in to offer voluntary help for individuals who, for various reasons, have problems managing their daily lives, paying their bills, or taking proper care of their hygiene.†   (source)
  • Brushing my teeth is very important and not just because of the proven connection between poor oral hygiene and heart attacks.†   (source)
  • Dave Jensen, who practiced field hygiene, carried a toothbrush, dental floss, and several hotel-sized bars of soap he'd stolen on R&R in Sydney, Australia.†   (source)
  • Today, the Mysterious Benedict Society's third full day of classes, S.Q.'s lesson had been called "Personal Hygiene: Unavoidable Dangers and What Must Be Done to Avoid Them."†   (source)
  • This was the reason for the veneration of the Torah and the exacting care used when making new copies of it-informational hygiene.†   (source)
  • He was just as concerned with the lack of hygiene at the public market, a vast extension of cleared land along Las Ánimas Bay where the sailing ships from the Antilles would dock.†   (source)
  • However, in the interests of employee hygiene, morale, and group spirit-building, my higher-ups have agreed to make a one-time exception in the regulations for this purpose.†   (source)
  • Adah would, of course, say something more droll, such as "Why, Rachel, your interest in personal hygiene has truly become a higher calling.†   (source)
  • So let me get this straight: the deuteronomists, through Hezekiah, impose a policy of informational hygiene on Jerusalem and do some civil-engineering work-you said they worked on the water supply?†   (source)
  • The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.†   (source)
  • And they encouraged a sort of informational hygiene, a belief in copying things strictly and taking great care with information, which as they understood, is potentially dangerous.†   (source)
  • It was not a hygiene thing.†   (source)
  • It was their fault that the kitchen looked like it belonged to a family of hygiene-challenged jackals, but I would deal with that later.†   (source)
  • He helped Whitaker transport Crash to the shower cell—the investigation into our bacchanal tap water had yielded nothing conclusive, apparently, except some mold in the pipes, and we were now allowed personal hygiene hours again.†   (source)
  • She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn't look like a very effective form of personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • This is not hygienic!†   (source)
  • The fact that our promised help was a little man with bad hygiene and a magical limousine did not particularly surprise me.†   (source)
  • That's where we get the word hygiene."†   (source)
  • And he'd ordered his lab people to build a clean room at the Bureau with unprecedented standards of hygiene.†   (source)
  • He simply used her as a hygienic method for relieving the tensions of the day and obtaining a good night's sleep.†   (source)
  • He had changed cars in Alingsas, put the terror-stricken dental hygienist, Anita Kaspersson, in the trunk, and driven towards Boras.†   (source)
  • But here on this broad avenue, we were surrounded by gorgeous supermodels, punk rockers, Goths, and leather-ites, suits, students, people from every other country—and, well, yeah, six kids with bulky windbreakers, ratty clothes, and questionable hygiene didn't really stick out.†   (source)
  • "Although, I can confirm, he needs help in the hygiene department," I added, sending the room into laughs again.†   (source)
  • He would realize that his professional future was in America, not in a backward nation that had yet to learn the lessons of basic hygiene and social justice.†   (source)
  • Anita Kaspersson, a dental hygienist who lived in Alingsas, was shaking all over as she stumbled through the woods.†   (source)
  • And she reaches under the table and drags up a grocery bag folded over at the top I know is filled with pajamas and drawers and her personal hygiene.†   (source)
  • If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.†   (source)
  • They finished the conversation in a halting and awkward manner and she was damn mad, angry at him and at herself, mostly herself, she decided, and she was determined to get back to the grind, to the work of hygiened perfection, shaping herself, willing herself into tighter being.†   (source)
  • Because Prince Nathaniel looks like a zombie, Prince Hector dances like a zombie, and if the prince from the German Federation doesn't learn to embrace personal hygiene by the Christmas party, he shouldn't be invited."†   (source)
  • Typically, Tostan will send a local trainer into a village to begin a major educational program that includes units on democracy, human rights, problem-solving, hygiene, health, and management skills.†   (source)
  • Nasserine kept a cleaner home than Essey, but I soon realized that she was an atrocious cook, neither knowing nor caring much about hygiene, nutrition, or palatability.†   (source)
  • "But he's being sought for the police murder in Gosseberga, for aggravated assault on another officer, for the attempted murder of Salander, and for the aggravated kidnapping and assault of the dental hygienist Anita Kaspersson, as well as for the murders of Svensson and Johansson.†   (source)
  • The other half seemed a bit more westernized, more open to variation, more cultured and friendly, and definitely more hygienic.†   (source)
  • Sakena Yacoobi visiting one of her clinics, in Herat, Afghanistan (Afghan Institute of Learning) Another Western aid group, trying to improve the hygiene and health of Afghan women, issued them bars of soap--nearly causing a riot.†   (source)
  • She started to chain me up, chatting in a distracting way; almost like a dental hygienist who knows she is doing something that causes discomfort.†   (source)
  • There was the morning memo, the lunchtime memo, three emails from Fredriksson updating her on developments in the day's lead story, one from her accountant, who wanted a meeting to discuss the implications of her move from Millennium to SMP, and a message from her dental hygienist suggesting a time for her quarterly visit.†   (source)
  • But recently, after several sessions with the cheerful little dentist (the only prison medic I liked and thought was competent) and Linda Vega, prisoner hygienist par excellence, she had undergone an amazing transformation.†   (source)
  • I could count on two hands the number of women in Danbury who had participated in a real vocational program—Pop, who had earned a food service certificate down at the FCI; Linda Vega, who worked as the Camp's dental hygienist; and the handful of women who worked in Unicor.†   (source)
  • We arrived at our new unit hours later, approximately twenty exhausted women who were issued sheets, pajamas, and small packets of hygienic necessities and ushered into a triangular cavern lined with two tiers of cells.†   (source)
  • Sophie made grateful use of these facilities; indeed, she would have been required to use them, since the mistress of the mansion, Hedwig Hoss, possessed a Westphalian hausfrau's phobia about dirt and made certain that any of the prisoners lodged beneath her roof keep clothing and person not merely clean but hygienic: potent antiseptics were prescribed for the laundry water and the prisoners domiciled in Haus Miss went around smelling of germicide.†   (source)
  • Another reason for killing a fly is if you have a strong passion for hygiene.†   (source)
  • Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics.†   (source)
  • Their duties were to see that houses were kept in a proper hygienic state and to list attics and cellars that had not been disinfected by the official sanitary service.†   (source)
  • Yet Pan was benign to those who paid him worship, yielding the boons of the divine hygiene of nature: bounty to the farmers, herders, and fisherfolk who dedicated their first fruits to him, and health to all who properly approached his shrines of healing.†   (source)
  • "Yes, and civilization is sterilization," Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopaedic lesson in elementary hygiene.†   (source)
  • That a Tibetan monastery should possess a system of central heating was not, perhaps, so very remarkable in an age that supplied even Lhasa with telephones; but that it should combine the mechanics of Western hygiene with so much that was Eastern and traditional, struck him as exceedingly singular.†   (source)
  • …medicine, the literature of all causes, reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology and publications of the Smithsonian Institution, the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, the Congressional Record, laws, pamphlets, prospectuses, college catalogues, quack hygiene books, advice on bust-development, on getting rid of pimples, on longevity and Coueism, pamphlets on Fletcherism, Yoga, spirit-rapping, antivivisection; he was on the mailing list of the Henry George Institute and the Rudolf Steiner…†   (source)
  • She had neat, hygienic ways for that too, but there were both relief and triumph in her smile of welcome; later we parted and lay in our twin beds a yard or two distant, smoking.†   (source)
  • Thus these men were led to break, oftener and oftener, the rules of hygiene they themselves had instituted, to omit some of the numerous disinfections they should have practiced, and sometimes to visit the homes of people suffering from pneumonic plague without taking steps to safeguard themselves against infection, because they had been notified only at the last moment and could not be bothered with returning to a sanitary service station, sometimes a considerable distance away, to…†   (source)
  • In Europe my wife was sometimes taken for an American because of her dapper and jaunty way of dressing, and the curiously hygienic quality of her prettiness; in America she assumed an English softness and reticence.†   (source)
  • Above them, in ten successive layers of dormitory, the little boys and girls who were still young enough to need an afternoon sleep were as busy as every one else, though they did not know it, listening unconsciously to hypnopaedic lessons in hygiene and sociability, in class-consciousness and the toddler's love-life.†   (source)
  • Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.†   (source)
  • But hygiene is probably not the only reason for friction, I would say.†   (source)
  • It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene.†   (source)
  • The Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend.†   (source)
  • She alternately detested herself for not appreciating the kindly women, and detested them for their advice: lugubrious hints as to how much she would suffer in labor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions about the things she must eat and read and look at in prenatal care for the baby's soul, and always a pest of simpering baby-talk.†   (source)
  • But the boredom of regime and hygiene repelled him, and after inoculating a man for enteric, he would go away and drink unfiltered water himself.†   (source)
  • …nature in the new gardener, whom my father had been asking all morning if the weather were going to improve—with her keen, jerky little step regulated by the various effects wrought upon her soul by the intoxication of the storm, the force of hygiene, the stupidity of my education and of symmetry in gardens, rather than by any anxiety (for that was quite unknown to her) to save her plum-coloured skirt from the spots of mud under which it would gradually disappear to a depth which…†   (source)
  • But now that you've had your lesson— Do you think you'd be competent to teach Practical Hygiene in Edtooth University?†   (source)
  • It possessed a non-conducting fiber ice-container, a porcelain water-jar (guaranteed hygienic), a drip-less non-clogging sanitary faucet, and machine-painted decorations in two tones of gold.†   (source)
  • From the time of his visit to the doctor, Ivan Ilych's chief occupation was the exact fulfillment of the doctor's instructions regarding hygiene and the taking of medicine, and the observation of his pain and his excretions.†   (source)
  • The destruction of the body by fire—what a neat, hygienic, dignified, and indeed heroic idea that was in comparison with letting it decompose miserably on its own and be assimilated by lower forms of life.†   (source)
  • It had been years since Dick had bottled up malice against a creature—since freshman year at New Haven when he had come upon a popular essay about "mental hygiene."†   (source)
  • The well-known Dr. Tom Bissex is football coach, health director, and professor of hygiene, chemistry, physics, French, and German.†   (source)
  • He was edified to learn that the selling of Bibles was a hustling and strictly competitive industry, and as an expert on hygiene he was pleased by the Sanitary Communion Outfit Company's announcement of "an improved and satisfactory outfit throughout, including highly polished beautiful mahogany tray.†   (source)
  • But——Please don't think I'm unsympathetic if I ask one question: Will the teachers in the hygienic new building go on informing the children that Persia is a yellow spot on the map, and 'Caesar' the title of a book of grammatical puzzles?"†   (source)
  • Though bacteriology was all of Martin's life now, it was the theory of the University that he was also studying pathology, hygiene, surgical anatomy, and enough other subjects to swamp a genius.†   (source)
  • And pulling himself up straight and regaining his serene dignity, he spoke about modern, progressive forms of humanitarian nursing, the slow, steady victory over epidemic disease, and went on to contrast such horrors with the achievements of medical science, hygiene, and social reforms.†   (source)
  • HANS CASTORP had been afraid he would oversleep, he had been so thoroughly exhausted, but he was up and about earlier than necessary and had plenty of time leisurely to pursue his usual, highly civilized morning routine—its chief utensils included a rubber basin, a wooden bowl of green, lavender-scented soap, and a straw-colored brush—and was able not only to tend to matters of personal hygiene but also to unpack and put his things away.†   (source)
  • He meditated that if science and public hygiene did remove tuberculosis and the other major plagues, the world was grimly certain to become so overcrowded, to become such a universal slavepacked shambles, that all beauty and ease and wisdom would disappear in a famine-driven scamper for existence.†   (source)
  • The Aseptic School, on the other hand, maintains that what the patient wants is that appearance of scrupulous hygiene which can be produced only by furnishing the outer waiting-room as well as the inner offices in white-painted chairs and tables, with merely a Japanese print against a gray wall.†   (source)
  • At certain times of the day, she could be seen at the railing of her balcony doing hygienic deep-breathing exercises—her chest, flat as a platter, rising and falling and her cane with a niello-silver handle, which she also used on her constitutionals, held straight across the back of her neck.†   (source)
  • The Pickerbaugh Healthette Octette held song recitals, and daily there were lectures, most of them by Pickerbaugh or by his friend Dr. Bissex, football coach and professor of hygiene and most other subjects in Mugford College.†   (source)
  • But more and more, thanks to the development of hygienics and the consolidation of personal security, natural death was becoming the norm; and for the modern workingman the thought of eternal rest after having exhausted one's energies in labor was not at all horrible, but rather perfectly normal and desirable.†   (source)
  • He discovered that most of the cases had appeared after the visits of an itinerant seamstress, a spinster virtuous and almost painfully hygienic.†   (source)
  • There were silk-upholstered easy chairs and tables with legs that had soft, curving lines;;i white carpet covered the floor, and the beds were not the customary hygienic deathbeds, but quite splendid affairs: of polished cherry, with brass hardware and a little canopy—without curtains—that joined the two beds as a kind of small, protective baldachin.†   (source)
  • As a hygienist, I war on alcohol.†   (source)
  • He liked his windows open at night and he disliked men who spat tobacco juice on sidewalks, but he was jarred by hearing these certainly esthetic and possibly hygienic reforms proposed with holy frenzy and bogus statistics.†   (source)
  • When Martin sought to show that they certainly knew very little about the superiority of fresh air to warmth in schools, about the hygienic dangers of dirty streets about the real danger of alcohol, about the value of face-masks in influenza epidemics, about most of the things they tub-thumped in their campaigns, Pickerbaugh merely became angry, and Martin wanted to resign, and saw Irving Watters again, and returned to Pickerbaugh with new zeal, and was in general as agitated and…†   (source)
  • If I could trust you, Martin, to use the phage with only half your patients and keep the others as controls, under normal hygienic conditions but without the phage, then you could make an absolute determination of its value as complete as what we have of mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and then I would send you down to St. Hubert.†   (source)
  • There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives.†   (source)
  • I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.†   (source)
  • Every time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned up his frock-coat,—the paletot had not yet been invented,—and took hygienic precautions.†   (source)
  • Sometimes even, half-rising, he delicately pointed out to madame the tenderest morsel, or turning to the servant, gave her some advice on the manipulation of stews and the hygiene of seasoning.†   (source)
  • And one must be master of all the principles of hygiene in order to direct, criticize the construction of buildings, the feeding of animals, the diet of domestics.†   (source)
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