Word: dunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many as 14. They and the studio net him between $7,500 and $10,000 a year. In his first year he broadcast ten chop-licking plugs a night to the lunchroom circuit for doughnuts and buns made by Fischer Baking Co. Sample "It's permissible to dunk Fischer's doughnuts up to the second knuckle." In that year Fischer's opened two new branches, added 19 new delivery routes. His first sponsor, in 1935, was Krueger Brewing Co. In 25 days, with no other advertising, the output of Krueger Beer had to be upped...
Ironside used the total immersion system- used to put on hip boots and dunk converts and some who didn't want to come in just then but who slid to Jesus on his bass notes. He used to circulate queasy looking gents through the oddie who'd tap you when you were just going good, say, on "Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side...
Best tunes: "I'd Like to Dunk You in My Coffee," "I Don't Want to be President," "If It's Love...
...Protestant churches, warm weather brings conferences and assemblies. Ministers meet, talk, elect officers, pass resolutions, shake hands, go home with new pious zeal. Last week met the following church groups: Dunkers or Dunkards are so named because they dunk. Descended from German pietists of the 18th Century, they believe not only in baptism by immersion but in strict Biblical interpretation, passive resistance to force, rigid avoidance of tobacco, spirits, musical instruments and, until recently, electricity, automobiles and telephones. Last week on the Brubaker Farm near Eaton, Ohio gathered 8,000 Dunkers, the men in black coats and broad-brimmed hats...
...Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week. More police and Republican Guards were on reserve in the Gare des Invalides nearby. Precise reporters announced that it was the largest massing of police at the Chamber since that memorable day in 1926 when the people of Paris attempted to dunk Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in the Seine. Word had gone round that an attempt was to be made on the life of Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister...