Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neither will there be any repetition of the V for Victory radio propaganda to Occupied Europe by Colonel Britton. M.P.s approved V as a symbol but damned its use in cops-&-robbers melodramas and soap operas. They recalled that on July 20, 1941, Dutch patriots were led to expect a V invasion army, tried to cooperate by bringing out hidden foodstocks and were promptly rounded up by the Nazis...
Dirty as they may be, said the Journal, "fresh wounds should be visualized as containing relatively few bacteria." These are soon killed by body tissues, "if given a chance." Infection arises when wounds are washed with soap & water, or flushed with antiseptic. This is "almost sure to introduce many new bacteria, and the entire wound may thus become seeded with infectious organisms." (Streptococci and staphylococci, the British found, are usually spread in the hospital by nurses and doctors who do not use masks, or fail to disinfect their fingers...
...station has decided that the millions of men now home in the morning and afternoon might like to hear some thing besides soap operas...
Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. "Good morning, Queen," said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved...
...listener likes or dislikes programs or passages for reasons all his own. In one program a man strongly approved a scene about President Roosevelt's fight against infantile paralysis because it described the fog at Campobello and he was interested in the weather. A woman liked a soap-opera villain because he always closed the door quietly...