Word: soap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stirred them to deeds unthinkable in calmer and more dispassionate moments? By no means. The spirit of mob violence has degenerated, if such a thing can degenerate, lower than the point at which it starts, to a stage where the most trivial incident can pierce the wall of soap-bubble thickness which divides law from anarchy in many States of the South. As H. L. Mencken declared in one of his essays, lynching takes the place of the merry-go-round, and offers a periodic relief from the tension of drab existence in Southern towns." This is pretty strong meat...
...What Senator was popularly known as 'The Mormon Elder'? ? The late Joseph E. Brown of Georgia who was not a Mormon, but old, sanctimonious and rubbed his hands as if washing them 'with invisible soap in imperceptible water...
...Anthony Wayne Cook, grand old dame of the convention, President- General of the D. A. R., pronounced prophetic syllables regarding Prohibition. "Are we to receive our principles from the eminence of a soap box? Are the guarantees of free speech and of a free press to deliver us to malicious slander ? Is liberty to become license ? No, a thousand times no! Prohibition is the will of the people, and shall prevail. The Volstead Act will never be repealed...
...Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble, famed manufacturers of Ivory Soap and Crisco, joined the movement to abandon billboards in pictorial locations...
These friendly concerns are: Kirkman & Son (soap), The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Washburn-Crosby Co. (flour), The Champion Spark Plug Co., The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., The Sun Oil Co., The Hood Rubber Co., The Ajax Rubber Co,, The Ward Baking Co., The Dodge Brothers Co., Gulf Refining Co., Standard Oil Co. of New York, The Texas Co. (oil), The Fleischmann Co. (yeast...