Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paste, made basically of potassium iodide, iodine and soft soap, and usually administered by doctors or midwives, is more effective, but vastly more dangerous. When the paste gets into the blood stream, as it often does, it quickly kills. Introduced to. the U.S. in 1931 by a German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths...
Smash-Up (Walter Wanger; Universal-International) could be mistaken, on its surface, for just another of those wife-v.-secretary "problem" movies which are called, with unconscious contempt, "woman's pictures." But beneath its soap-opera surface, it takes some perceptive looks at a marriage going to pieces...
From somebody's soap-which...
...Order of Shellbacks (traditionally permitting them to spit to windward except in the presence of one who has rounded Cape Horn), with a simpler initiation: ship's petty officers doused their noses with powder and fed them pills. Warned that the pills might be made of soap, Margaret refused to touch them until her big sister ate one and assured her it contained a cherry...
...Aguilar Monge is a smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...