Word: peppermint
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Every flavor from salt through iodine to peppermint is at the dentifrice consumer's disposal. He can buy gritty dentifrices or soapy ones. If perverse, he may vary flavors and textures with the seasons. How shall the advertiser, having a single soap-polish to sell, get it into contact, year after year, with even the most fickle palate...
...varying nature of the articles received last year makes it doubtful how big a celebration can be made on the proceeds. At that time several thousand pennies, a peppermint life-saver, and tissue paper were among the contributions...
...When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"-no wonder that it [a baby] awoke in the night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children...
...Peppermint candy and tea were fed the Yale soccer team at its game last Saturday with Pennsylvania. The novel diet was introduced by Professor Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology, in the hope that the increased amount of sugar that was introduced into the blood by the candy would find its outlet in increased energy in all the men during the second half...
...watched her dreaming face, and over her lay a coverlet of antique French lace pricked with a legend that one did not translate aloud. With Admah Holtz, things were otherwise. His white-trash father drank himself to death, day by day, in the cabin kitchen where Ma Holtz made peppermint-drops for her son to hawk in the streets. Sometimes the girls in Miss Martincastle's school patronized him, Flora Lee once among them. Having seen, Admah never forgot her. Her arrogant and perfumed phantom lived in his memory while he put the peppermints behind a counter, bought...