Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merit in radio drama, to Sandra Michael's Against the Storm (TIME, Nov. 10), which emerged from the ruck of soap operas to prove that pap and pandering are not requisites in that field; and to Norman Corwin's eloquent Bill of Rights anniversary program (TIME...
...Department, of all people, put on a soap opera last week. Aimed at the countless devotees of radio's endless "strip shows," it was unusual only in its subject matter and its freedom from the verbal lather of commercials. Its name: Chaplain...
...Government is planning a nationwide campaign to persuade housewives to save fat-pan drippings, meat trimmings and all-sell it to local butchers (at perhaps 5? a lb.). Object: glycerin, a byproduct of soap, which is made from...
...Buffalo Advertising Club last week heard a Manhattan psychiatrist on the subject of a couple of soap operas, and was he burned up! Clinical studies of such programs are rare, though clinical studies of their listeners abound. Dr. Louis Berg took only a casual interest in soap operas until some of his women patients suffered relapses after listening to them...
...match shortage had become so acute that a girl could safely beg one from a strange man without being considered fresh. People were trying to keep clean on four 3-oz. bars of soap a month. Whiskey sold for $7 a bottle, and gin (except a bathtub variety) became almost unobtainable. Women stood in long queues to buy the Government's last stocks of canned goods...