Word: marshmallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First popularized by marshmallow-voiced soloists, recorded on Victor or Columbia disks, the news-songs filter into every part of the U. S. largely through the mail-order houses. "Little Marion Parker" as a phonograph record has been sold to more than 250,000 persons; as sheet music to some...
...years ago a certain brand of marshmallows was sold only in confectionery stores. The marshmallow concern had a market survey made and found that marshmallows could be sold in grocery stores as well. They went about securing such distribution and today 95 per cent of their product is sold in grocery stores and the yearly volume of sales has increased more than 60 per cent...
...will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-The luscious taffy of poetic romance, with Walter Hampden giving a matchless perform-ance of the marshmallow school...
...fight for scraps anywhere on the outskirts of the campus. I am so finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store for my usual luncheon of a banana and a marshmallow, I felt my gorge rise. However, knowing the importance of a regular, calculated diet I finally downed...