Word: antisepticized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gerard B. Lambert, 80, venturesome businessman who made Listerine a U.S. household word by coupling his father's antiseptic mouthwash to the word halitosis (meaning bad breath in Latin), was so successful that he was able to sell out for $25 million in 1928, after which he spent...
One hospital administrator rebutted SDS's contention that such a strike would not be detrimental to patient care by claiming that there are no non-essential workers in a hospital "when you come right down to it." "Even the housekeeping staff is essential to prevent the spread of infection, to...
If the conversation had lagged last week at the New York Hilton Hotel, where the Salvation Army in nonsectarian generosity honored Francis Cardinal Spellman, hosts and guests could have turned to a subject of mutual interest: sales of Listerine antiseptic. Listerine at a religious convocation? Why not-since, under terms...
This group became known as "the Eight," and made its impact on the U.S. scene with such glum paintings of the cluttered urban scene that they were dubbed "the Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland...
It was while he was being held for psychiatric tests that DeSalvo identified himself as the Strangler, says Gerold Frank, who quotes extensively from a rambling, tape-recorded statement that DeSalvo made to a state assistant attorney general. According to Frank, the authorities are reluctant to name DeSalvo as the...