Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tide, marketing tradesheet. investigated the drugstore buying habits of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, reported: "Mr. Farley buys Squibb toothpaste. He also buys Squibb Shaving Cream. He's a heavy user of Listerine and pretty regular on Wrigley's (Spearmint). He never buys patent medicines...
...onetime actor himself, Playwright Odets instinctively loaded his show with the sort of scenes that are ice cream & cake to most mimes. Stella Adler, as Gordon's wife, gets a chance to knock down her brother, Luther Adler, who plays the part of Gordon's partner. Brother Luther thereupon throws a fit. Somebody else knocks down the boy playing brother Ben. The Gordons' Communist furnace man goes around shouting questionable blank verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there...
...return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered reminiscences, cheered the captain, gurgled effusive compliments to the Morgan Line...
Millions in the Air (Paramount) is another picture about radio amateur hours. In it the girl (Wendy Barrie) is a rich soap-maker's daughter who attempts the amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile...
Neither cold weather nor a ruthless campaign of extermination will deter a colony of crimson ants from seeking nourishment in Wigglesworth F entry, Scraps of food, bits of toothpaste, and tender morsels of shaving cream are avidly consumed by the tribe of beasties...