Word: dishpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs. of his chin...
...stared coldly at the clean, uninhibited lines, the unadorned and self-sufficient surfaces of modern dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
Discouraging Pots. Even more discouraging were pots & pans (favorite collectors' items despite the sharp, post-V-E-day cut in meat, milk, bacon, fats and sugar rations).* In Petticoat Lane is one of the best places to find kitchenware, hairpins and hair-curlers, a small enamel dishpan costs about...
Lures, Snares & Baits. Before the war advertisements were written mainly to entice people into buying things. Powerful and persuasive, advertising improved the nation's health; made the U.S. conscious of halitosis, dishpan-hands, B.O., floating power, coffee nerves, the delights of motoring; advertising gave birth to many a new household word, taught Americans to eat better things, have more comfortable homes, use gadgets instead of elbow grease...
...threats, appeals, persuasions by advertising men had almost convinced the U.S. citizen that he had halitosis, dandruff, fallen arches, falling hair, worn-out furniture, out-of-date bathrooms, obsolete washing machines and ineffective tooth paste in his inferior home, at his side an inferior wife whose hands were dishpan-red, whose linen was tattletale-grey, and who would be left in want when he was run over by a car with inferior brakes...