Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that the gods in one of their more capricious moments dropped Mr. Richard-Barthelmess into the lap of a wealthy Chinese family and then left him there to make the best of a thoroughly bad situation. Miss Constance Bennett in the role of a soap manufacturer's ebullient daughter contributes the major complications in the form of malignant sex-appeal. Of course, it is the refined variety that this young lady uses on her reticent lover, but it served her purpose...
...great passion is for one, Sam Lee, the very respectable and eligible young gentleman whose lack of response arouses the old go-getting blood of the Wagners of soap fame. Suddenly she discovers that this object of her advances is a prince of the ancient house of Lee Ying and it is all off. The ninety-nine and fourty-four hundredths per purity must be saved at all events, so she preserves the Wagner dignity by beating Mr. Ying with a riding crop. Of course such an intolerable condition can't exist for long and a reconcilliation is reached...
...process devised by John Woods Beckman, Oakland, Calif., industrial chemist, proves commercially practicable, people will have tiny "bugs" to thank for their soap, salad oil, synthetic hot dogs,* margarin, shortening and such commercial products as Mazola, Wesson Oil, Snowdrift, Crisco, Nuco Butter...
...have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also. With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed a respectable, middle-aged bathmistress. The lady M. P.'s did not respond. While the bathmistress, with soap and towels at hand, received her salary in idleness, Commissioner Lansbury protested loudly that he had been deceived. He had spent the people's money under the impression that the ladies...
...Patriarch Hadley's place in his college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...