Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Potsdamer Platz last week, an old man creakily stooped to retrieve a cigarette butt. He expressed the city's skepticism: "New rumors, eh? Ha, they're all just like soap bubbles-too shiny to be true." Near Tempelhof airdrome, where the U.S. and British planes were still droning in, a student scoffed: "The Russians are bluffing again...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...
...dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...
Philip Wylie, raucous critic of contemporary U.S. folkways (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals), had thought up the title for his new book: Opus 21; Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age-A Concerto for a One-Man Band-Six Arias for Soap Opera-Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse...