Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employment office furnishes all the equipment, which consists of a red pail, chamois skin, sponge, and soap, and states that it will have a man on the job one hour after notification. The workers are to be trained by an experienced window-washer, and will receive $.50 per hour, with a minimum charge...
Died. Marjorie Easton Woodhouse Procter Leidy, 30, second wife of Philadelphia Socialite Carter Randolph Leidy (first wife: Josephine ["Fifi"] Widener), divorced wife of Frederic William Procter, Ivory Soap heir; by drowning when her husband's car, to avoid another, plunged through a guard railing, landed upside down in the shallow Bronx River...
...doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...
Secluding himself, Muncie's Conway said of his enemies: "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." With soap-box evangelists haranguing outside the Muncie courthouse, a grand jury debated fiercely, at length indicted Mr. Conway for attempted rape...
...baby to have a normal life in the White House, but it means quite a struggle for the White House mother. . . . My sister Esther [Mrs. W. S. B. Bosanquet of Marton-in-Cleveland, England] really was the White House baby. . . . It was she who was always eating the fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going away, and she laughed and told him: 'McTinley's toming, tan't have...