Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soap-box rabble rouser but a kindly, even-spoken man, Earl Browder does a good patient job among earnest Party workers, achieves publicity for his cause only by maneuvering into headline situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre...
Procter & Gamble, having sold more soap in the fiscal year through June than in any on record, made $6,629,564 in the quarter ended Sept. 30. compared to $3,604,505 in the same period...
...will not contest his protest concerning the evils of the American Legionnaires. On the other hand, I sincerely believe that they have compensated much for these black marks against their record by hauling Earl Browder off of the soap-box. Browder got exactly the kind of reception that anyone would receive were he to attempt to preach Capitalism in Russia. Indeed, in the latter case, his meeting would not have been the only thing that would have been smashed...
...Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car was then coupled to a regular freight train, rolled north...
...those guys 250 bucks apicco every week just to get gags for my radio script", Jimmy said as he wiped a wandering smear of soap from the end of his proboscis, "and do you know what they do? Why they just subcirbe to college magazines and cut out the jokes. It's colossal, that's what it is, colossal!" Although the star of Cole Porter's latest show admitted he had read lots of these he had never seen a copy of the "Lampoon", but this was explained when he said that he only read the funny ones...