Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pregnant reply: ' 'Cos one does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...
...girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual...
...packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt peddled razor strops. Benedict Arnold took woolens into Canada. Cherry rum, gingerbread and candy were the stock in trade of Phineas T. Barnum before, aged 25, he bought "161-year-old" Joyce Heth, "George Washington's nurse," and turned showman. Purloining a sheaf of his father...
...ports, one's profits on butter-stamps, axes, ballads, candles, sermons, maple sugar, hats, horse liniment and soft soap, could be put into indigo, poplin, clocks, Bibles, Jews-harps, carriages, beads. One swapped for a horse and, if one's reputation permitted, peddled home again to dazzle the village with a city wardrobe and watch-chain...
...Wash its mouth out with soap and warm water...