Word: liniment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Bailey ought to know. Born in 1886, the son of a patent-medicine hawker, he learned song-and-dance routines to help sell the family product: Bailey's Gypsy Liniment. At 120-proof, the stuff worked like magic. Later, in vaudeville, Bill hoofed up with a singer named Dave Hodges, who changed his name to Barnum so the pair could work their way around the country as Bailey & Barnum. They were a sort of circus minimus until a Manhattan impresario gave them a five-minute spot in Fred and Adele Astaire's Lady, Be Good. The playbill...
...week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn't win a hamburger with that kind...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
...Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan's Liniment and the DuBarry Success Schools...
...Cleveland fans, who suffered with Boudreau for nine years, still find it hard to locate in Lopez the personal magnetism that Boudreau generated. Nor can they forget the Sunday afternoon against the Yankees in 1948 when Boudreau dragged himself to the plate, a mass of liniment and tape, and delivered a pinch single that won a crucial game. And the Boudreau shift, the two home runs at Fenway Park when the Tribe won the play-off from the Red Sox, the flawless double plays--all are permanent parts of the Cleveland scene...