Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl. That no college on earth was ever like Pelham does not detract from the fun in Sweetie so much as the director's obvious uncertainty whether he was making a satire or a straight story. Typical shot: a football hero with a loose shoe...
Vitamins are substances of very complicated chemical structure. They appear in certain foodstuffs in minute quantities. Their absences from food causes certain deficiency diseases. Although six vitamins are now definitely recognized,* only since 1912 have they been called vitamins. Now the public knows so much of their values that food manufacturers make special points of advertising vitaminized products...
Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...
...average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste, socially superior to any one they can meet in any of the newer countries...
...House he evaded Conservative queries: "So much has been done that I want to tell the Honorable Gentlemen all about it as soon as possible...