Word: alka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peddler of class hatred ... a reactionary ... a stooge for big business . . . mentally unbalanced and needs a psychiatrist." Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams hustled to the rostrum to defend Reuther. (Mused a pleased Michigan Republican: "The people are getting the idea that every time Reuther takes an Alka-Seltzer, Soapy burps...
...bells led into a plug for Jan Murray's Treasure Hunt. After a cantor's blessing and wish for "health, happiness and togetherness," the bride and groom moved out of the canvas-and-wood chapel set, and a little cartoon man popped on-screen and chanted: "Alka-Seltzer, speedy Alka-Seltzer, bound to please you, take it for relief." In the "reception room" the announcer intoned: "Let me show you some of your wedding gifts: I'm sure you'll find nothing cooks like a Tappan range. This portable sewing machine features an automatic lubricator...
...Alka-Seltzer & Vitamins. Last week Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson, men who had fought and made up, were together on the campaign road. Before leaving Washington, Kefauver worked on routine chores in his office and in his six-bedroom English Tudor home in fashionable Spring Valley. (Richard Nixon lives about eight blocks away, the two Nixon girls and the two youngest Kefauver girls go to the same public school, Nancy Kefauver and Pat Nixon shop in the same neighborhood stores, belong to the same P.T.A. chapter.) Kefauver also went to Farnsworth-Reed Ltd., an exclusive 17th Street custom shop, bought...
...Kefauver's hand as he boarded the Chicago-bound Capital Airlines plane was his enormous, ever-present briefcase, stuffed with all the items that long campaign experience has taught him he needs: an extra shirt (he perspires heavily), his slippers, silver-blue eyeshade, mail, vitamins, Alka-Seltzer, cigars (he chews them still unwrapped), cigarettes and a holder (to keep fit for campaigning he tried to quit smoking, failed, settled for filtertipped cigarettes puffed through a filtered holder), three or four pairs of reading and sunglasses, shaving equipment-and a fat, black contact book with all the important political names...
...analyst's couch. Morris offers many rewarding moments of major excitement and minor truth. But he deliberately invites comparison with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and beside these great American romantic realists, Morris looks perhaps adult but certainly dull. Where Fitzgerald could turn rotgut into champagne, Morris turns champagne into Alka-Seltzer...