Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition that the medium for introducing a new star should be a picture in which she performs as a prostitute with more principles than profits. In Wharf Angel Toy (Dorothy Dell) is a San Francisco bad girl, rehabilitated by her pure love for Como (Preston Foster). He is a soap box socialist hounded by the police for a murder he did not commit. Turk (Victor McLaglen), also in love with Toy, helps Como escape. This leads to two climactic moments which, like the heroine, appear to have been dredged up from the past: the one in which Como and Turk...
Meantime Emory Evans Smith, head of the chemical firm which had analyzed the Pepper sample, was having other emotions. Last week he had to crush the hopes of 35 eager-eyed people who brought him soap, potatoes, sponges, sewage, a dead rat. Nor was he optimistic about the ones who had found what seemed to be ambergris. First, he warned, he had tested only a sample. It was by no means sure that all the stuff was ambergris. Even if it were, there might be no ready market for so much of it. Used to "fix" the odors of other...
...morning last week Turnkey Sam Cahoon was distributing soap to the prisoners taking morning exercise. Suddenly, Dillinger's stick of wood, whittled into the shape of a pistol and blacked with shoe polish, poked into Turnkey Cahoon's back. Cowed by the wooden weapon, he yielded up the jail's keys, was forced to call the deputy sheriff, who called the warden. Within 15 minutes Dillinger had 33 trusties, prisoners, jailers, wardens and special guards locked securely in the cells...
Other women were anxious to learn how to make artificial flowers and hooked rugs, how to mount butterflies, leaves and flowers. Men flocked to boat-building and carpentry displays. Intellectuals shouted answers at a beauteous young woman who read questions from a book. And everyone liked soap-carving, cheapest hobby in the show...
...with success would require not only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...