Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While 1955 was no vintage year for biography, there were some good short lives and two or three jobs of major quality. None seemed so anxious to tell all as actresses or their biographers-from Mary Pickford (Sunshine and Shadow) to Ethel Barrymore (Memories) to Katharine Cornell (Me and Kit) to the late Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. The best work was done by writers who wrote about other writers...
McGraw-Hill's New Techniques for Church Fund Raising, complete with "Canvass Kit." Luxury item is Gretzinger World Tours' suggestion to "SEND YOUR
There is a notable trend this year toward ecclesiastical do-it-yourself. "Save up to 50%," J. Theodore Cuthbertson Inc. urges readers of Episcopal and Presbyterian magazines, "on Finest Quality Church Vestments with Ready-to-Sew Cut-Out Kits." Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity-only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50. Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience...
...share of bootleg dental dealers in local trade; it is also home to virtually all the mail-order business. This undertakes to supply false teeth by copying old dentures mailed in, or-stranger still-by using impressions made by the victim at home with a do-it-yourself kit...
Liquid Sewing Kit. Kling Kote Liquid Cloth, a clothes-mending material said to be stronger than most fabrics, has been put on the market by Chicago's Federal Products Co. The housewife simply holds the two edges of ripped cloth together, coats them with the liquid which when dry can withstand washing in water...