Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house is entered through the living room (16 ft. by 12 ft.). The walls are papered in parchment, stenciled over with oil paint which can be washed with soap & water. Set in the wall is an electric clock and beneath it a radio. Off the living room are two bedrooms, small but well planned, with comparatively ample closet space. All rooms are air-conditioned. The bathroom is equipped with wall-hung toilet and wash basin which simplify housecleaning. The basin is big enough to bathe a baby in. Over the toilet is a cabinet with such books as Getting...
Speaker of these fighting words in Boston last week was no underfed Communist on a soap box in the Common, no overfed American Federation of Labor official from State headquarters, but First Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady, addressing a rally of unionized telephone operators. What stung this strong language from Labor's dandified McGrady was the double punch which Federal courts had just handed NRA's collective bargaining clause in Delaware (see p. 15), its wage fixing provisions in Kentucky...
...inch glass mirror, world's largest telescope reflector in use, was covered with a thin film of silver. If it were coated with aluminum, as all Mount Wilson astronomers have long wished, it would quickly acquire a protectively oxidized surface, it could be cleaned with ordinary soap and water and it would seldom if ever have to be removed from the telescope tube...
Though Skagway was his last resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates...
...Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train with soap and toothbrush. In barracks at Toul, between a pair of Saar refugees he fell downstairs, dislocated...