Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warner plays a kindly part in a comedy of disillusionment. He turns from soap manufacture to painting, puts his soul on canvas, and sells it?as the skin you love to touch...
Sandburg's parents were Swedish, yet somehow he has the warmth of southern countries in him, too. He was born in Galesburg, Ill. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American War. He has worked on railroads. He has washed dishes. He has been a political organizer and soap-box orator. He attended "Lombard College," where he was editor-in-chief of the undergraduate paper. Wide contacts with the facts of life have given him a love of people in the mass of crowds, of ugliness, of brutality. More than any other American poet, with his curious rythms sprung from...
Lord Leverhulme, soap magnate and ex-Minister of Munitions: "Thomas Kennedy, Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, contested my statement that a man can earn ?100,000 a year. I pointed to Henry Ford and said...
...Soap is in disfavor on the New York stage. In two plays now current-You and I and The Comedian-characters acknowledge for purposes of comedy that they are manufacturers of that substance. Soapmaking is in stageland the acme of the prosaic...
...Knowledge is pleasant, but how much more blessed is ignorance? We can believe in what we do not know but when we know it, we see it as it is, and who wants to see it as it is! No, a thousand times no let us rather aid the soap bubbles that float from CRIMSON'S pipe to soar into infinity, rather than, stealing Lampy's soapel prick them. OLIN DOWS...