Word: dishpans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cinemactress Susan Hayward said she had posed for her last kitchen publicity picture: "Hollywood is not full of stars with dishpan hands. That's fiddle-faddle. We're exciting and half screwball. All of us are flamboyant hams...
...store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this is the day they give babies away, with a half a pound of tea." To spread the store's name, a team of eight dapple grey horses drew...
Delegates from 13 countries compiled an impressive list of ills to which the conscientious housewife is heir. The outstanding ones: dermatitis ("dishpan hands" from allergy to cleansing agents), neuritis, neuroses, varicose veins, low back pain, fallen womb, peptic ulcers, inflamed muscles, vitamin deficiencies, arthritis, flat feet...