Word: lather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic, nonelectric floor washer and dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty water, empties it in the sink, leaving the floor clean and dry. Says Family Circle Magazine: "The greatest thing since sliced bread." Price...
Softening for Lather. City water supplies in the U.S. and Canada, mostly drawn from fast mountain rivers, are in general safely low in sodium. But some rivers are loaded with the stuff. The Arkansas River reaches 1,770 p.p.m. in the fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly...
...Fanned Lather. Life is going relatively smoothly these days for Judy. She has toured successfully since February, with a short break to play a brief dramatic role in Stanley Kramer's film Judgment at Nuremberg. She will soon tape a television show for next season, is considering a Broadway show. Most important, Judy, at 38, is singing at her best, far above the level of two years ago, when she appeared, puffy-faced and uncertain, at Manhattan...
Eventually, of course, the ooze began to flow again. Judy wound up with Over the Rainbow, and her children were hoisted, blinking, onstage while the believers covered themselves with lather. A nonbeliever could only edge quietly out of the hall, knowing that he had heard the best belter in the business...
Housewives dislike hard water because it does not lather well, but it may prolong their lives, and more especially their husbands'. A surprising relationship between a high mineral content in drinking water and low death rates from heart-and-artery disease was reported last week in the A.M.A. Journal...