Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation has no soap, but soap opera without end or sense floods each household daily...
...Graham & Family (Mon. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). The newest of too many new nighttime soap operas is ballyhooed as an effort "to bring home to the public the trials & tribulations of the General Practitioner." Dr. Graham "stands for the heart and humanity of every American doctor." His family stands, unbelievably well, for his unprofessional maunderings. Fortunately, listeners don't have...
...soap operas; instead, a weekday Woman's Magazine of the Air, containing news and features about women, shopping and housekeeping information. ¶ No children's blood-&-thunder hour...
...Adams was buried next to his wife, at the foot of the statue. Characteristically, he was much annoyed when people asked what Saint-Gaudens' seated, hooded figure symbolized. "Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption - Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. [It is] meant to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered the Sphinx...
...Soap operas, singing commercials, hillbilly music, and "too much talking" will make the average undergraduate turn elsewhere for his amusement according to information obtained by the Crimson Network in its recent college-wide radio listener poll...