Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power to forge huge newspaper circulations (the Spanish-American war "made" the New York Journal-TIME, Aug. 16), is revered and propitiated by editors everywhere. Nevertheless, Dr. Shillito pressed his point. "What is needed," he said...
...formal ball was being held in the provincial palace. The guest of honor, Mr. Thompson, strode not without dignity to the centre of the immense ballroom, made a speech in which he urged that the acreage of coconut crops be increased, since coconuts are essential in making oils, soap, cosmetics and substitutes for butter, lard...
Take in one hand plain, unmedicated soap, and in the other a clean tooth brush. Lather the brush. Open the mouth. Scrub...
Every flavor from salt through iodine to peppermint is at the dentifrice consumer's disposal. He can buy gritty dentifrices or soapy ones. If perverse, he may vary flavors and textures with the seasons. How shall the advertiser, having a single soap-polish to sell, get it into contact, year after year, with even the most fickle palate...
...joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap Man W. C. Procter, besides many another bigwig. To this array was added the name of John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Board of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, miner, friend of trusts, "combinations," high finance...