Word: sages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern practice of medicine plus the modern advertisement of proprietary drugs has almost wiped out the homel use of simple. Nonetheless, a demand persists for senna, henna, pennyroyal, hops, boneset, camomile, sage, tansy, flaxseed, rhubarb, ginger root, fennel seed, aniseed, saffron, viburnum...
...Sage and onion stuffing for ducks, geese and pork enables the stomach to digest the rich food...
Medium height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...
...Founder's works, have withstood a fair test of time. Best seller: A Message to Garcia. This "literary trifle," as he called it, Hubbard wrote one night after dinner when Bert II had remarked that Rowan was the real hero of the Spanish-American war.† The Sage of East Aurora made this incident the peg for a passionate sermon on loyalty, duty, alertness. Short & snappy, it is still the gogetters' ABC, one of the first bits of advertising copy at which the Sage later became so successful. Translated into 45 languages and dialects, "more copies...
...last month, 3,510,000 people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord is smooth-faced, suave, lively. As Seth Parker, he puts on a white wig and false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural witticisms. Leading members of his cast of ten singer-actors are "Ma" Parker, Capt. Bang (famed for his rendition of "Crossing the Bar"). Lizzie Peters, a comic spinster (played by Mrs. Sophia Mecorney Lord, mother of two), and Cefus, Lizzie...