Word: soap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purina Soap Company gained a decision over the Oceanside Hotel Company in the Supreme Court of the Ames Competition in Langdell Hall last night. J. S. Myers 3L and C. C. Williams 3L, members of the Langdell-Marshall Law, Club, were the successful attorneys for the plaintiff. The defendant Hotel Company was represented by C. C. Cabot 3L and Nathaniel Thayer 3L, members of the Thayer Club. The case concerned the validity of a certain contract...
Realizing the iniquities of this situation, a Mr. E. J. Mehren hopes by means of soap, water and snappy clothes to reawaken the old guild spirit of craftsmanship in the modern workman. And what a change that will make: relieved of the inferiority complex which his former garments made him feel, the new plasterer will step out with the pomposity of a banker, and lay plaster with the assurance of a hotel clerk. With this new complacency added to his already striking prosperity, the plasterer will be a man envied...
...necessary for admirers of this eminent painter's queer, gnarled and gnomish trees and ladies in old-fashioned caps and flounces, to seek his work in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the Tate Gallery (London), the Municipal Collections of Vienna and Barcelona. They may be found wherever soap is likely to be sold or advertised...
...incident is curiously paralleled by the episode of the use of Bubbles, a painting by Sir John Everett Millais, famed Englishman, for advertising purposes by the Pear's Soap Co. Millais, however, did not connive at the commercial use of his art. On the contrary, it was done without his knowledge; and his wrath knew no bounds when he discovered...
According to Colgate & Co., Mr. Rackham was induced to become a commercial artist by a persuasive young woman who was able to point out to him the splendid facilities offered by the soap interests for the introduction of his work...