Word: ethyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ethyl alcohol): wash out the stomach with warm water or sodium bicarbonate, give coffee as a stimulant...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
...Kettering, Ohio (pop. 38,118), more than 1,000 people, headed by scientists, industrialists and Government officials, honored Charles F. Kettering, a big wheel in the invention of the self-starter, ethyl gasoline and the diesel engine for locomotives, on his 80th birthday. The man who is credited with contributing more to the automobile industry than anyone else said that at 80 he felt "no different than I felt at 40," demonstrated he felt spry enough to take a few turns around the dance floor with Mrs. Charles E. Wilson, wife of his oldtime associate at General Motors...
...buttonholing him with quiet humor, soft talk and attractive art. On the heels of the hard sell spieler comes the shaggy dog who converses with Friend Joe on the merits of rum, and the shaggy Schweppesman who will drink anything plus tonic. Kangaroos sell airline tickets; giraffes promote Ethyl; Mr. Magoo plugs beer. Banks are using cartoons to encourage thrift. The low-key sell is not in itself new on the U.S. scene, e.g., JellO, Campbell's Soup and Coca-Cola have gentled readers for decades. But more and more advertisers are taking the position that an ounce...
...Cacti. As for the paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least...