Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics made public during the past fortnight indicate how widespread is the hygienic use of soap, tooth paste, shaving preparations, and so forth, in a typical U. S. city?Milwaukee. Editors of Milwaukee newspapers sent reporters to the drug stores of the city to learn how extensive is the use of cosmetics...
...shout aloud. They were, in person or by proxy, the 700 millionaires who had been invited to come to this drawing room (the auction booth of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan) to bid for the first items of the collection left by the late Viscount Leverhulme, the manufacturer of Lifebuoy Soap...
...university is to be a factory, and those gentlemen and scholars who brought libraries to the colonies in America would probably groan at the word, then pure science will develop better soap and shoes and sealing wax, and call the job complete. But if the university is to be something even higher than business could imagine something finer than business could really effect, then pure science will continue to function as an organism of honest research into the whys and wherefores of this odd, but necessary universe...
...Jollycos could always be brought back again, as indeed they were, very cleverly, last fortnight. In the new series of Ivory Soap advertising displays, the vignets discovered Sally Jollyco Verity and her happy bridegroom, Phil, in Paris. Jollycophiles read the fine, unobtrusive print with delight...
...been trying to buy her a present. I tried earrings, brooches, beads, laces, lingerie, perfume and everything else this sacred city holds. Not a thing would she take until she got to a drug store, and then she made me go in and buy her four cakes of Ivory Soap...