Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Girl" by his side (small, pert, blond Geraldine Siebolds Pyle was a Government girl when he married her in 1925), Columnist Pyle roved the highways & byways of the Western Hemisphere. He crisscrossed the continent 35 times, wore out three automobiles. He wrote about anything that took his fancy: soap, dogs, doctors, the art of rolling a cigaret, hotel bellhops, hotel rooms, how to build a picket fence, his troubles with a stuck zipper in his pants. He went to Alaska and wrote about being shaved by a woman barber in the mining camp of Platinum, near the Arctic Circle...
...Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year) and an old one (Always) unusually well, bears up well enough under her elementary dramatic burdens. So do Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf (as a newshawk). But Christmas Holiday, an unsubstantial little tragedy at best, runs through their fingers like no-soap in a bathtub...
...Divorcees. Woman's Jury is a three-way parlay of courtroom drama, confession, and the endless domestic problems of the soap operas. The problems come out of the mailbag. One problem is chosen for each program and presented to the jury, which makes its decision after hearing the arguments of attorneys (one male, one female) for both sides of the question. The juries (a fresh one for each show) are chosen from Boston's women's clubs. No two-time divorcees or multi-widowed women are allowed...
...Damnation." The juries' verdicts are often a source of astonishment and dismay to 305-lb. George Bradford Simpson, divorced, the ex-soap-opera "doctor" and free-lance writer who thought up, oversees and half-owns the show. His score on guessing the decisions is close to zero. One decision which bothered him occurred in the case of a wife whose husband admitted that he loved another woman but wanted her to stay on while he pursued his new affair. She asked the jury what to do. They voted unanimously in favor of her staying...
From Ireland: "This is a pretty place but nothing compared to Iowa. I am sending you some shamrock I picked. It grows just like our clover. . . ." From Texas: "So this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace...