Word: lotioned
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...selling trick was to keep men's cosmetics as far away from the boudoir as possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian...
...says Trainer Tom Smith.) "I know good horses by the look in their eyes," she says. "Mr. Smith knows their soundness, but I know if they are beautiful." All of which is O.K. with philosophical Trainer Smith, who gets only mildly upset when his boss brings him Arden eye lotion for the horses' eyes and Arden "Eight Hour Cream" for their chafed spots...
...over the Dominion, thirsty Canadians found liquor-store shelves bare, bootleggers' prices sky-high (in some instances, $15 for a fifth of Scotch). Result: a demand for substitutes. One of the most popular: a highly scented, highly alcoholic, highly poisonous (if swallowed) skin lotion called lilac water...
...Raving Dervish." Hitler's closest companions found "the homeless derelict from the Viennese melting pot" a normally absurd figure. Many were repelled by "this face that looked like an advertisement for a shaving lotion; this emptiness with the avid, frightened eyes; this sometimes slinking, sometimes hopping, never naturally moving form with its narrow shoulders [and] ridiculously correct suit"; this man who exhorted them "with all the semi-education of his age," using "miserable German . . . defective logic . . . tasteless humor . . . false pathos," and subjected them to "alternate whining and brutality...
...clutched enough boxes of toothpicks to pick his teeth for life. Another stacked a dozen straw hats on his head. A woman juggled seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain to hold it against a mob of rivals When he had lost the last garment, he burst into tears...