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Word: goode (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sunlight. When U. S. washers think of Lever Bros., they may perhaps think of how 98% of Hollywood cinemactresses use Lux, or of how Lifebuoy soap removes Body Odor. Some oldtime U. S. washers may think of the oldtime question: Good morning, have you used Pear's Soap? Yet, though Lux, Lifebuoy and Pear's all are Lever Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Motion Pictures help children remember their lessons, help stupid ones get as good marks as those who ignore pictures. ?Yale's Daniel Chauncy Knowlton and J. W. Tilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...entitled to a gilli (servant) to carry his pipes. The piper had the status of a gentleman. Wherever the chief went, his piper went along too. In the early morning while the laird was dressing the piper promenaded in front of the castle, piping his master a good morning. In emulation of the Scottish lairds, the English kings had their court pipers. Henry VIII was a notable bagpiper. Today in front of Buckingham Palace there parades in the morning the King's Piper. George V keenly enjoys the music, as did his grandmother, Queen Victoria, who kept two court pipers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Banff Festival | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money off it. Please explain all about the oil well. ... I hope the good Lord will bless you all in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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