Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes, when company officers think of the multitudes who still do not know the pleasures of Coca-Cola, they are awe-stricken by the prospect. It has even been known to move an executive vice president to prayer. That happened to James F. Curtis, who said, before a bottlers' convention: "May Providence give us the . . . faith ... to serve those two billion customers who are only waiting for us to bring our product to them...
Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take...
...good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic, tweedy Max Divver...
...passable grade of ore. This book is an example of the work of a noted Lincoln scholar, digging up minutiae of value. It was at the old Illinois capital of Vandalia that 27-year-old Abraham Lincoln solved a tricky problem in practical politics, and it is useful to know not only that he did it, as the biographies attest, but precisely...
...starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that $100-a-week salaries and mink coats from the boss are not for just taking dictation...