Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather deaf but very active," there arrived in the U. S. Viscount Leverhulme, King of Port Sunlight, the home of soap, on board the S. S. Majestic. He was accompanied by his son, the Hon. William Hulme Lever, also by an old school fellow, Jonathan Simpson, and by five directors of his various companies...
...William Hesketh Lever he started life as a helper in his father's grocery store. Some 20 years later he began to manufacture soap on a small scale and eventually built up a business valued at some $500,000,000 out of his famous Sunlight Soap and Lux (sold in the U. S. by Lever Bros.). He himself is a model of efficiency and a hard worker, up at five-thirty every morning, at his desk at six, "through for the day" at seven...
...fact, one must understand that the British Labor Party is not followed only by laboring class alone, but also by so-called intellectuals. One of the supporting organizations is the Teacher's Union, comprised of 100,000 members. Years ago saw Bernard Shaw preaching the gospel of labor from soap boxes. Sydney Webb and Henderson are, with McDonald the leaders of the Party. Yet, these two never worked up through the ranks of labor but reached their conclusions and convictions as a result of thought. When you find such men as Arnold Bennett and Thomas Hardy voting the labor ticket...
...Kinny", a monkey, male, aged ten months, has disappeared from' its home in Apthorp House. On Saturday evening the monkey was safely in its soap box in Apthorp 8 at 6.45, and at 7.15 had disappeared. Its owner, therefore, estimates that Kinny escaped at 7 o'clock...
Pirovani, the Italian, presented the titled couple with his own house, and Elena with a magnificent assortment of soap and perfumes. Canterac, the Frenchman, built an artificial park just to give a garden party for her. Even Richard Watson, the leading juvenile, fell under her spell and forgot all about his interest in little Celinda, the flower of the Rio Negro, who used to lasso him jokingly in the most affectionate manner. But things went too far when Pirovani and Canterac staged a fistfight and then a pistol-duel about her. Pirovani was killed, Canterac fled from justice, the Marquis...