Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score Photographer May deducted three points: one because he "suspects" the President's daughter uses a bit of rouge; one because she does not always toe straight; one because, at 134 lb., she seems slightly underweight. For the new president and football coach of Notre Dame, the South Bend, Ind. Chamber of Commerce held a testimonial dinner, invited Editor Merle Thorpe of The Nation's Business and President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue. As Editor Thorpe launched into a blistering attack on the New Deal, President Elliott listened with Democratic disapproval, teetered on the back legs...
...indeed. Il Duce's knees would bend perforce to the Muse as he passed through the five-foot door to the sword-hung study where the Poet, in cloth of gold and purple velvet, summons servants garbed like monks from their surrounding "cells." D'Annunzio might permit so distinguished a guest to enter his sacred Adriatic Room, lined with stalls from an abandoned church. He would surely show Il Duce where he spends his days of solitary contemplation, the chamois-lined Chamber of the Leper which it sometimes pleases him to call the Cell of Pure Dreams. Here...
Thousands of housewives bought thousands of packages of Ivory Snow, of Supersuds or of Rinso, last week, with never a thought of who made those incipient soap bubbles, much less how they were made. But in the new Federal Building in South Bend, Ind., the process of spraying soft soap through a nozzle and having it dry before it falls engaged the million-dollar attention of a battalion of lawyers who represented four-fifths of the entire U. S. soap business. Brilliant Newton Diehl Baker led the mass-attack of Procter & Gamble (Ivory Snow) and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet (Supersuds) against...
Across the hall from the court room, a library was hastily converted into a theatre where reels of soapmaking film were screened for the benefit of Federal Judge Thomas Whitten Slick, whose brother Albert runs a big South Bend laundry. As the trial progressed last week the court adjourned across the street to an office building where Lawyer Baker had installed complete laboratories. There white-coated chemists practiced the art of soapmaking at long tables groaning with beakers, bottles, vials, tubes. Most elaborate in the history of the Northern Indiana district court, the trial was expected to last three weeks...
...South Bend trial could hardly be described in terms of two venerable soapmakers ganging a struggling competitor. The assets of Britain's Lever Brothers Ltd. are $175.000,000 larger than the assets of P. & G. and Colgate combined. Its profits last year footed up to £6,200,000?about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green...