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...Example, by Double-Talker Murray ("Looney") Lewis during a Fred Allen broadcast about the New York World's Fair Hall of Pharmacy: "Ilfus on the bildad with just enough reticulation on the nostrum to allograph Ipana, Minit-Rub and Sal Hepatica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Buick's expensive sponsorship of Joe Louis' recent sweet but short fights. Radio Jester Fred Allen, who sells Ipana tooth paste and other Bristol-Myers nostrums, last week bested the bunch by cracking: "I hear if his fights get any shorter the broadcasts will be sponsored by Minit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crack | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Heckled another, "I suppose you and him think you're Socialist! You in your black silk lay-dee-day-dee's gown this minit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

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