Word: lysol
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...year-old Charlie Miller would engage in a different sort of enterprise; he would try to shut the sound of carols from his mind. They reminded him too painfully of his happy boyhood in Germany. Charlie would spend Christmas where he spent every other day-in the grim, Lysol-haunted Municipal Lodging House. He would pass the morning reading tattered newspapers. At eleven, he would pick up his crutches (to which his spare shoes and a bundle of other belongings were lashed) and get a chicken fricassee dinner. Then, slowly, he would go back to the heap of limp newspapers...
...reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors; a sign in the Accident Ward: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS THE NURSE SAYS...
...eclampsia, infection, hemorrhage-the three great killers of women in childbirth. Because childbirth kills oftenest where poverty is greatest, The Fight for Life was shot in a slum clinic, Chicago's famed Maternity Center. For delivery-room shots every piece of camera apparatus had to be sterilized with Lysol...
...Babcock forbids the use of formalin, carbolic acid or lysol in dressing wounds because they retard healing. He recommends weak wet dressings of bichloride of mercury or iodine, bromine (for fetid wounds), and aluminum acetate (for raw skin...
...Bookshops, Inc., retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...