Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consumer Goods. Most retail shops have closed. Those still functioning, like Moscow's five-story Mostorg department store, have little more than rows of empty counters. Housewives can rarely get pots & pans, chinaware, hairpins, combs, brushes, soap. Men cannot buy razor blades, pens or watches...
...area to be cut was prepared for several days by "scrubbing and wrapping in bichloride solution or carbolic-soaked towels." Later on, the style was to scrub the patient off & on all day with green soap, then soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap. Finally, in the middle of the night, when he might have rested for the ordeal, he was "entertained" by being scrubbed, and the site of the operation was bathed in alcohol and dressed with a wet, sticky poultice to be kept on until the operation. Internal cleanliness was achieved...
Radio may have to change the stock answers which it has given to critics of its daytime serials. It has always reminded such critics that they may not like soap operas, but some 20,000,000 U.S. women do. But last week a critic who had to be listened to (Hooper survey's Dr. Matthew N. Chappell) confronted the networks with some cold serial facts and an intelligent reading of them...
...Chappell's conclusion: If the amount of sponsors' products sold is any indication, the daytime serial is "just about the greatest molder of attitudes, beliefs, ideas, convictions and behavior of women that we have in our society. . . ." But if the 60-odd daily soap operas hope to regain and increase their popularity, they will have to find a new formula...
...tour was a success. There were Sarah Bernhardt cigars, soap, gloves, handkerchiefs, stockings. Sarah usually played to standing room only. Leading citizens of Montreal fought for the privilege of dragging her sleigh through the snow. Edison recorded her voice. She made...