Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altogether, some 146 articles are made from the corn plant, including axle grease, face powder, shoe heels, cigaret holders, gunpowder, incense, phonograph records, shaving soap, shoe horns, varnish...
...idea of being a printer was still with me, and when one day I learned that by selling a certain amount of soap, I could earn a small press, I knew that at last the way was open. Within a few hours I had orders for the soap, which amounted to $14, but to my sorrow, it was necessary to delay sending the order several weeks. My folks, however, squeezed this amount from the family income and permitted to send the money with the order. The printing outfit proved to be substantial and with it I managed to earn considerable...
...recommended, each month, by their teachers. They are admitted to his class on trial; none but those whose abilities are exceptional are invited to continue. Those so invited are given, not instruction, but opportunity. They have their choice of media -water color, oil, crayon, charcoal, clay or soap (for sculpture). Last week, an exhibition of their work was held at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan...
...does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism in Wartime ? "The Germans eagerly quoted me to show that the moral case against them was a trumped-up one, which...
Died. William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme, 74, British soap man; in London, of pneumonia (see BUSINESS...