Word: ointments
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...there is any fly in the scented ointment of Jean Harlow's current celebrity, it is her occasional dissatisfaction with the character which her appearance and her mother, by a sort of conspiracy of nature and circumstance, have built up for her. Her determination to achieve a form of self-expression distinct from the one she has achieved on the screen shows itself in different ways. For her game of "Murder Mystery," she prefers writers as opponents, as she believes they think up the best crimes. She herself wants to write and spent last year completing a novel called...
Lack of funds is the customary fly in the ointment. The regrouping of several smaller scholarships formerly offered is not sufficient. A group of a dozen Middle Western students at Harvard is only a beginning to the ambitious program proposed. But where there is conviction and determination like that of Harvard's president, a way will eventually be found to make it possible for Harvard to cater in a considerable way to outstanding students from the West. --Michigan Daily...
...Bache found crumbled temple and dwelling walls, spindles, loom weights, hammer-stones, hones, knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious...
Barbasol shaving cream and razor blades; America's Own matches; Böst toothpaste; Burnett extracts and spices; B. V. D.'s; Champion spark plugs; Crown overalls; Dictographs; Eberhard Faber pencils; Frostilla lotion; Musterole; Northern toilet paper; Penn-Rad oil; Venida hair nets; Zemo ointment; Runkel chocolate; Kreml hair tonic; Stokely strained vegetables; Winget Kickernicks for women...
...recent visit to the White House by a group of U. S. newsmen. Said Editor Pew: "I heard the President say that he was dumbfounded by the almost unanimous support given to his program by the American Press. . . . He said, 'But there is a fly in the ointment, gentlemen. Where is your criticism? You know the Government can make mistakes and this undertaking is too vast a program for any one man or set of men to be sure of. We are certain to make blunders. I rely on you newspapermen to check us. . . . There is no kindness...