Word: antisepticized
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Making the kitchen a nice room has meant a drastic change in kitchen design. In the '30s and '40s it was fashionable to compress the kitchen into a space-saving, antiseptic cubicle. But as postwar families grew, kitchens grew with them. Since the war and the shortage of...
Carrier Warfare. Mrs. Frazier left Perryopolis as a young woman in 1887, and only returned once in all the 61 years before she died in 1948. But tales of her eccentricities drifted back to local ears. After her first husband, a prominent Philadelphia physician, died in 1917, she developed a...
Plastic Painkiller. Larson Laboratories of Erie, Pa. put on sale a spray-on plastic to make easier the removal of adhesive bandages. Squirted on the skin before tape is applied, the Adhesive Balm Spray (containing Monsanto's Santicizer No. 8) forms an antiseptic, stainless plastic film, later permits dressings...
¶ Women's lipsticks (and men's chapsticks) cut down the germ count, because most are made with a mild antiseptic, and the heavy base tends to suffocate the colonies.
Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, brute symbol of ferocity and military leadership, stands at one extreme of Men at Arms. At the other is Captain Apthorpe, who stands for all that is most ridiculous, most pompous, most bumbling and yet most sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life...