Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as if True Confessions had been caught running installments of a Willa Cather novel: Since daytime radio serials, supposedly adored by "the U.S. housewife," are by common consent the most fatuous of dramas, the discovery of a soap opera that dared to be literate made radio columnists pop-eared...
Luck was needed, for the soap opera is a rigid medium, a hard game to buck. Scripter Michael was lucky in her husband, a radio producer who could keep casting and direction in the family, and lucky in the fact that P. & G., with more than a dozen other soap operas running, could afford to experiment with one. She had acquired deftness with dialogue and sound in five years' radio apprenticeship. But the best thing she had was a determination to create living and thoughtful people...
Small Sandra Michael writes her five episodes a week sitting outdoors (if necessary, in blankets) in South Norwalk, Conn. A churchbell or a caterpillar on a leaf is enough to give her a start. By other than soap opera standards, her stuff is only fair. Her worst, deadline-rushed scripts are aimless and sentimental. But from her best a listener may at least get the shiver of sincere emotion conveyed, an honest word spoken...
...bath" has been the complaining cry of J. Leo Rost, a Dunster House Senior in his three years in Cambridge. And now, he at last has his wish, for he has provided himself with a portable, collapsible, rubber tub, in which he is went to "idle among the soap suds with a good book...
Every day bale upon bale of towels, sweatshirts, football togs, underwear, and other equipment is dumped into three huge machines in a University laundry whose equal only the Army can boast. Two barrels of soap even larger than the one John Hawkins hid in are consumed every week in washing the equipment; plenty of "sour" is added to spike any and all odors; and the bleach removes stains and discoloring...