Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soap & Brains...
...recommend such an idea. In Radcliffe we have a seminary in which the prime virtue seems to be the displaying of the most acute sartorial inelegance that it is possible to imagine, an inelegance that has as its cardinal philosophy the belief that at all times brains and soap are mutually exclusive...
...into the male line when I discovered that about 50% of my customers had husbands who were using their beauty creams. We sell green powder for ruddy skin and blue powder for sallow skin. We don't sell them powder puffs, of course. We sell a special soap cream with sea salt grains. One night, there was a knock on my door. It was a man who said, 'My wife and I have separated. I used to use her pore cleanser. Now my skin is breaking out again...
...Obermayer, a 75-year-old Bavarian-born brewmaster, plans to take the service, too, but he will use it only on a limited basis. He is proudly self-sufficient. He built his own home, cabinets and furniture, grows his own vegetables. His wife Mary Monica, 74, makes her own soap. "When I came here in 1917," says Obermayer, "it was a wilderness. It is not so good now. There are too many people, and they are making too many roads. They kill all the animals. Oh, well, when electricity comes, we will get an electric stove and put it beside...
...brasses and the lasses may look the same, but in fact the Army is finding new ways to serve God by serving man. In many of its slum-area chapels, officers still sweeten their fundamental ist, Methodist-derived gospel preaching with soap and soup for half-listening human derelicts. But the Army is rapidly augmenting its brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even...