Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Chuck was 24, he was Colgate district manager in Milwaukee, where he turned $80,000 worth of red ink into a profit in one year. Two years later, when he was a divisional manager in Cincinnati, Pepsodent snapped him up as sales-promotion manager ("didn't know about my age; I lied"). For four years he was promoted every year - except in 1939, when he became vice president and general manager. He stayed in that job for two years. Then he became executive vice president and, last June, president of Pepsodent. At that time, he got a good...
...professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...
...editor of Printers' Ink cringed last week from the word Yummy. He had been seeing it in numerous advertisements: Wheatena was simply yummy; Peter Pan Peanut Butter was plenty yummy; dresses and sweaters were coming in yummy colors. Sighed the editor: "Yummy is ... seldom, if ever, employed by males over six. . . . The yummy vogue traces to the current influx of feminine copywriters, is one of the home-front horrors of war which must be borne as philosophically as possible...
...walls of one of the main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
...this one seemed already aerated--never seen a 'poon with drier ink. An' y' know, I mussa been drunk--becos every goddam thing in the paper seemed to me to have been written by some guy whats already left. Never seen a 'poon with so much correspondence...