Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends, I'm no stranger here. . . . I've had a very wonderful twelve days' fishing. ... It has been a wonderful rest. I'm not going to attempt to tell you any fish stories. . . . The only fly in the ointment has been I've put on about ten pounds. ... I hope to come down here next winter. . . . Many thanks...
Other Zonite products include Forhan's toothpaste, Zonite antiseptic, ointment and suppositories, Argyrol, Ovoferrin and Agmel tonics, spraying and rinsing Larvex. The company has assets of $2,000,000, last year earned $953,000 against $750,000 in 1930 despite a 4% drop in sales volume. The showing delighted Broker Edward F. Hutton, chairman of the board, who is said to regard Zonite as his "pet company." It also pleased such directors as Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Colby M. Chester Jr., Herbert Bayard Swope and Hunter Sylvester Marston...
...Modern Drama really helps. We long for the "sang-froid of an urster," to quote her "Sonnet From the Brooklynese," which is as perfect a thing of its kind a we have seen. "The Fly in the Ointment" and "Poem for Mother's Day" are superior works; others are not too good. Obviously we all can't be Nashes or Parkers, but there are other drums to be beaten. "I Feel Better Now" is one of them...
...last issue on p. 14, one article is headed "Damn Big Dam," and on p. 16, the words of Senator Norris are quoted: "Take a bundle of straw and go across the river and start a little hell of his own." Such quotations are the fly in the ointment. They have a bad influence on the minds of the children in a family by a paper which otherwise is an excellent journal for the home...
Ever since the first stockmarket crash there have been stories of a "trouble-spot'' in Manhattan banking. When remedies from within fail, a sure ointment for financial and industrial troubles is a merger. Long has it been hoped that this treatment would be used to assuage the Manhattan sorespot. Recently just such a merger was rumored. Remarkable feature was that it involved the unique plan of consolidating four banks (TIME, Nov. 10 ). They were: Manufacturers Trust, with resources of $463,000,000, greatly expanded during recent years; Public National Bank, with resources of $246,000,000, a bank...