Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the D. S. O. Last week in Andover the Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about his daddy's exploits. I'm fair astonished! Blown, as you might say. How could anyone who wasn't at Mons know all the Captain knows...
...much discussed Pond's Cream series, featuring endorsements from Marie of Rumania and many another celebrity, which marked the return of the testimonial to advertising's most polished circles. Outstanding current examples of testimonial campaigns are the advertising of Pond's Cream, Simmons' Beds, Lux Soap, Fleischmann's Yeast and Herbert Tareyton, Old Gold and Lucky Strike cigarets...
...cause or a stupid one, is always disagreeable. It is especially disagreeable when dished out to the public with an indigestible sugar-coating of Art. But although propaganda has spoiled for the U. S. public many pictures which, wildly praised by some critics for their scenic effects, were merely soap-box communism, propaganda does not spoil this story of a governor with a conscience...
...tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
...hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar are in the manufacture of shoe polish, soap, explosives, fuel, essential oils. Conceivably a vast industrial opportunity lies behind the purity of sugar. The question: Why doesn't industrial chemistry find for sugar other factories than the stomach...