Word: cared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lubricating local machinery was pleasant. Mr. Raskob again assured everyone that there would be some $4,000,000 on hand. About $500,000 would go into the Corn Belt, he said, and $600,000 for the nationwide radio campaign. Lest these sums sound too large, he took care to add that he had learned "from well-advised Republicans" that the G. O. P. campaign fund, now announced as between three and four millions, would reach six or seven or even eight millions. G. O. P. Chairman Work quickly retorted that Mr. Raskob was being "absurd...
...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...
...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Unclean Mouth. "Any mouth that is not given intelligent care is unclean. An unclean mouth is one that retains decayed teeth, deposits on the teeth, diseased roots. Bacteria are starved by cleansing the mouth and the tissues are fed by stimulating the circulation which brushing gives."-Dr. Frederick Bricker of Hollywood, Calif. Results of unclean mouths: "Anemia, appendicitis, gastritis, nephritis, cystitis, myocarditis, iritis, encephalitis, gastric ulcers and a nasty disposition...
Beauty. In convention at Chicago was the American Cosmeticians' Society. Secretary Frances Martell cited pregnant statistics: "Piety comes high, but not one-fifth as high as prettiness. Beauty of all kinds, including cosmetics, facial treatments, care of the hair, cost American women $1,825,000,000 in 1927. . . . During the same period, members of all the Protestant churches in the U. S. and Canada spent only $489,429,076 for foreign and home missions and congregational expenses...