Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe to steal some of their mother's rice-powder? Mrs. Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving...
Having flung the gage of battle, I. L. Lyon & Sons, Inc., makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder and Dental Cream, went on to declare...
...about the fate of their teeth. Only 1 in every 20 had pyorrhea-only 5.7% between the ages of 35 and 44; only 7.1% between 45 and 54; only 7.4% past 54. Such statistics are all against pyorrheapanic. . . . For SIXTY YEARS the makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder have believed that the purpose of a dentifrice is to encourage the regular daily brushing of the teeth. . . . For sixty years the pleasing wintergreen flavor* in Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder has made new friends and held old ones to the habit of daily brushing. . . . A dentifrice should provide...
This sign, printed boldly above a slot-machine in a new Chicago dancehall, was the opportunity. Powder for men. Could you believe it? The Chicago Tribune editorial writer, justly incensed, pounded out a scathing denouncement in which he held up to ridicule the forerunner, the great prototype of the breed that blanched their faces artificially...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...