Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart, Ivory Soap, peaches, cream and Dresden china, concluded: "This reporter would like to go on record that he has never met a star who compares...
When Jim Adams left the soap business for the food business 18 months ago, lumbering Standard Brands' sales were running only 33% above their level in 1930, the company's first full year of business...
...Soap and Soup. The Irish-born prelate and his cellmates, four Japanese criminals, spent a good part of each day mashing mosquitoes against the concrete walls of their 9-by-5½-ft. cell. It helped keep down the mosquitoes and it helped pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop...
Q.E.D. The Blue Network seemed to have proved its point: that a good deal of soap opera time is wasted. The Blue, when it was NBC's second string network, produced one of radio's first network soap operas (Little Orphan Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors...
...Lavatories used by patients working in the kitchens are not furnished with soap, towels, or even toilet paper. [The lavatories] are in a filthy condition and when cleaned are cleaned by the same persons handling food in the kitchen." In four buildings, 26 toilets were stopped...