Dirty house

A dirty house causes dirty work environment and therefore, it must be kept clean. 

Friday night in the cellar, wall to wall poofters, Mandrake playing dirty house, traffic had already seen Bee before she reached the bar, she knew something was wrong. She asked Craig for a ten minute break and took drinks and cigarettes through the humidity over to the corner. 

He turned into the dirty, narrow alley in which he lived, opened the door of a tenement house, and, running quickly up a flight of stairs, entered Mrs. Dempsey s kitchen. The savory odor of frying ham greeted his nostrils and reminded him that he had had nothing to eat since morning. Well, never mind that, he would have supper soon now, he and baby together. 

The old childhood rhyme, "Sticks and stones will break my bones/ But names will never hurt me /Call me this, and call me that/And call yourself a dirty rat " must be looked upon as a morale-builder, or perhaps an admonition that we adults should heed, but certainly not as a statement of truth, we are terribly hurt by names and words and what people think of us-often much more hurt than by sticks and stones. People have "chosen" to die in a burning house rather than run out of it naked.(back)... 

All bottles of medium prewarmed by standing in a water bath should be thoroughly dried with tissues (not a dirty towel) before being taken into the aseptic transfer room. Water baths should contain bacteriostatic agents, e.g. Panacide (British Drug Houses Ltd. Appendix 3). 

For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first life line. 

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