Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Procter of Procter v. Sprague is Colonel William C. Procter of Cincinnati, whose name is more frequently coupled with another name, the name of Gamble, with which it is associated in the manufacture of Ivory Soap, which floats and is 99.44% pure...
Lord Leverhulme (who won his elevation by the able manufacture of a red soap) recently died (TIME, May 18, BUSINESS) and all his famous pictures were locked up in the dusk of a London house to to await disposal. English collectors fingured their cheque books. Mitchell Kennerley, Director of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, sailed for London...
...Morning Post offered its readers a more cheering psychology, implying the late Leverhulme's taste was as honest and as malodorous as his soap, that the transfer of the pictures to the U. S. would be a test of the U. S. public, which, "like Leverhulme, will no doubt be willing to buy its experience...
...joint debate and replied to the false propaganda which fills his new play. His mistaken sincerity is unquestioned. But Mr. Thomas looks on America today with jaundiced eyes. He has forgotten the elemental themes of love, ambition and sorrow which make the world laugh and weep, and turned soap box orator for the outlawed brewer and distiller. It's a pity. The reputation of Playwright Thomas and that part of the American theater involved in propaganda which encourages lawlessness will both suffer...
Last week, impotent as a matchbox fleet floating near a cake of soap, the remains of the German Navy* maneuvered sadly off Helgo-land...