Word: pill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Red Motley preferred to look at the brighter side. "We've cleaned house as far as advertisers are concerned," he boomed. "We've thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
...brought disaster to Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
...nine closes the season with an unimpressive record of three wins against the same number of losses. Harvard's bitterest pill to swallow this summer is the three pastings which the powerful Boston University Terriers presented to the tunes...
Sherlock Holmes would have been at home in Brazil, land of the needle. Brazilians consider an injection, rather than a pill, the handiest way to cure anything from calcium deficiency to syphilis. Stenographers inject each other with vitamin compounds at tea time. Druggists give shots to customers in back rooms, send errand boys out to needle homebound clients. The charge: 15?. Thus, when the Government last fortnight banned drugstore injections, it threatened the clinical habits of a nation. Grounds: insanitary needles. Real reason: the dope needle was also flourishing...
...make way for it, Hearst's hustlebustle evening Herald-American last week dumped a "goofball" (sleeping pill) expose it had been running for weeks. As the new series developed, opposition editors sighed; baby-faced Harry Reutlinger, city editor of the Herald-American, was turning his journalistic cartwheels again. They had given up hoping he would fall on his face; but they still marveled at the razzle-dazzle that has pushed his paper (circ. 562,000) out in front of the competing Times and Jack Knight's Daily News...