Word: fountained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soda Fountain. Said Capt. C. W. Gilbert of the Panama Mail Line's Venezuela, last week, "I have watched American citizens when they had every opportunity to drink hard liquor if they wished. Most of them just don't do it." Impressed, company directors installed a soda fountain on his ship, were gratified when it reported $100 business between New York and the Pacific Coast...
Tobacco & Sodas. United Cigar Stores bought considerable stock in Bastian-Blessing Co., from whom it will buy all its soda fountain equipment needed during the next ten years. Bastian-Blessing dividends thus will be a sort of indirect, shuttle profit to United Cigars...
Janet Gaynor, newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
Arizona. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed Boulder Dam filibusterer, handily won his Democratic renomination. Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt. Arizona's habitual (1911-19; 1923-28) Governor, was put up for an eighth term. If Arizona goes in November as in September, Senator Ashurst will be re-elected by three-to-one over Republican Nominee Ralph H. Cameron. Governor Hunt's opponent will be Judge John C. Phillips...
...When the fountain is both sweet and bitter...