Word: sloganed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer for such an organization as the Boston Braves is genuine, if harmless, eccentricity. In this respect, Buyer Marshall is eminently qualified. He is a Washington. D. C. arriviste whose ebullient social career is based upon his chain of 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries, each plastered with the slogan "Long Live Linen." Laundryman Marshall sleeps until noon every day, takes a nap before dinner, stays up most of the night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall...
Last week in Laporte, Ind. Ralph R. Upton, Seattle schoolteacher who in 1912 invented the railroad crossing slogan: "Stop-Look-Listen!" crashed his automobile into a truck, killed himself & wife...
...Haggard & Greenberg had not reasoned so far. And Dr. McCormick decided that Camel advertising, which no longer uses the "Lift" slogan, was presumptuous. A non-smoker himself, Dr. McCormick bought nine Flemish Giant hares, had two senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning...
...Slogan of the convention was "We Choose Christ." This conviction caused 27-year-old Clyde Grubbs, Texas evangelist, to work his way on a caboose to Toledo, then hitchhike to Philadelphia. Jack Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading...
...most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions, Inc. It will have no slogan...