Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnny Ray, a 25-year-old Oregon lad with an inordinate love of salt water in small quantities, has just set something of a record in the music business. In eight fast weeks, his recording of Cry (with The Little White Cloud That Cried on the other side) has sold 1,000,000 copies. Singer Ray's gimmick: tears...
...plus ten children) were working happily together on a ten-acre farm near the town of Mesa. One (with eight children) was toiling on another farm, and a sixth was hard at work running a store and gas station. The two other wives live outside the state, one in Salt Lake City, one in Rock Springs...
...Salt Lake City...
...posterity will reckon does not belong to this era at all. He belongs to those Edwardian days when the wiseacres said of him-as they said of Churchill-that his very brilliance would be his undoing. For Belloc could write like an angel, sail a yacht like an old salt, take to the hustings like a born politician (he was a-Liberal M.P. for South Salford from 1906 to 1910). He turned out books at the rate of two or three a year-poems, novels, histories and essays of such diversity that, as early as 1905, E. C. Bentley felt...
Dean Lyons' prescription: brush the teeth (salt and soda will do for a dentifrice) within "split minutes" after every meal, because sugar left in the mouth changes into acids within half an hour at most. "Carrying toothbrushes around ought to be just as acceptable as carrying combs, lipstick and powder...