Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity coxswains Warren Clark and George Walker gave way to a real master during the first workout at Red Top, crow training headquarters, yesterday...
...example, after many a laudatory word about U.S. generosity in the Marshall Plan, he once summed up his sentiments in a way to bring cheers from home: "I await the day when we shall be sending bundles for America and floating loans for Washington. That day I shall crow until I am hoarse...
Lowell also lost out on the river yesterday, as Kirkland's crow edged them out in the final preliminaries. Tomorrow, the four-crew finals will be rowed in the Charles basin along a mile course. Starting time...
Mandrake & Aloes. Dr. Carter sought his raw materials in nature. Podophyllum resin, or podophyllin, is the resin of the dried root of the mandrake or May apple; Carter combined this with the dried juice of aloes. He chose as his trademark an overstuffed black crow, which gave a nice zoological balance to Bull Durham's bull on the nation's barns. By 1880 the growing business was incorporated. Millions of pills were shipped all over the U.S. and abroad...
Half a century later, a new advertising technique gave the sexagenarian business an added boost. The ominous crow was retired; the slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed...