Word: lye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...
...TIME you say His Majesty the Tenno is ugly. I have been very disgusting for your paper because such lye. You could satisfied if you bee such beautiful man like Tenno. You do not understand because poor taste. Coolidge with nose like oyster is nothing to Tenno...