Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anna Dean Dulaney, bacteriologist at the University of Missouri, crossed the University campus recently she found a young woman's vanity case. What she did with it she told last week in Hygeia, Health Magazine: "Somewhat more curious than scrupulous, I opened it, and there lay the usual powder puff. No longer could I repress my bacteriologic instincts, and I carried the little puff to the laboratory, where I made a count of the bacteria attached...
...bacteria-say 'germs' if you prefer-finding suitable food, multiply and form groups, or colonies. Each colony represents the growth from one bacterium. These colonies were counted and by calculation the total number of germs clinging to the part of the powder puff used was obtained. This number multiplied by four of course gave the total count for the entire puff. It was 20,000. Twenty thousand bacteria clinging to a powder puff to be used on a clean face...
There is for instance, his Tie-Them-Down Powder, which, slyly slipped into tea, coffee or other beverage is guaranteed to fill the husband with an intense desire to spend his evenings at home. If, having been given Tie-Them-Down, the husband still shows no signs of curtailing his cruising radius, he becomes an "Aggravated Case" and the situation calls for Bring-back Powder, similar in nature but greater in potency than Tie-Them-Down. The Bringback retails at $50 for 25 powders; Tie-Them-Down at $25 for 25 powders. They are sold by the West African Remedy...
...Downing St., Brooklyn, operated a charming dispensary with a stock remarkably like that of "Dr." Pearce. He had Tie Down Goods instead of Tie-Them-Down and King Solomon's Marrow instead of King Solomon's Wisdom Stone. He also had some additional merchandise: Boss Fix Powders (to keep employers well disposed) Guffer (or Goof-er) Dust, Happy Dust, Easy Life Powder and Buzzard Nest...
...recited that the U. S. is bounded on the north by Canada; peace-lovers have beamed upon this border as one of the few great international boundaries "unmarred by fort or battleship." But U. S.-Canadian relationships have not been invariably happy; sometimes harsh words have been spoken, sometimes powder has been burned...