Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...
...sandpaper." The mistier background of the "home front," where "unaccustomed to apply the standards of reality to the speeches of their masters, and demand a reckoning for squandered blood and wasted years, [people] toiled in the factories, fields, and cities, sent their children to be soldiers, washed with lye-soap and paper towels, travelled in unheated railway carriages, froze in chilly houses, sunned themselves in future glories and reports of victories they never presumed to question, mourned their dead, and were patiently ridden to destruction...
...summer afternoon in 1885 the great Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became...
...rarely held up in production and often finished ahead of shooting schedule. She makes four a year for which she gets approximately $75,000 each. The rest of her income is derived from outside royalties with 15 commercial firms that sell underwear, coats, hats, shoes, dolls, books, toys, dresses, soap, hair-ribbons and table wear...
...present Sapolio factory at Manhattan's Bank and West Streets stands on the site of a plant built by Enoch Morgan in 1844 after a number of prosperous years in the soap business his father-in-law started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store...