Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hairpins & Toothpicks. Next morning, refreshed by a Russian breakfast of beer, schnapps, sausages, fried potatoes and more schnapps, we went out to see these Germans by daylight and found them like all Germans-shabby. Their faces were grey, for there is little soap for scrubbings. When they gather in crowds, as at the theater, they have a strong, sour smell. The Russian zone is not well fed, although it eats better than the American or the British...
Simplicity is the enema keynote in the Atomic Age. Best ingredients: "plain lukewarm water, or perhaps just a trace of bicarbonate of soda or ordinary salt." Warns Dr. Lieberman: "Soap is a very popular ingredient now, unjustly so, because in most cases it is unnecessary and irritating...
Leonarda Cianciulli, wife of a Government clerk, had 14 children. On her husband's mean pay it was hard to get food, soap and candles to light their rustic home amid the ricefields and stunted mulberry trees of the Po Valley. But she had imagination. To the villagers of Correggio she was known as a poetess and fortune teller; lovelorn women came up the canal path to her whitewashed door, with a few coppers for the cards...
Then she fired up the stove, crammed Faustina into several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...INTERNATIONAL), McVane got the green light. The time & place, he said, a little breathlessly, were "the most important in the world today." His network evidently disagreed. During the preceding 40 minutes -while CBS, Mutual and three independent stations broadcast Baruch in full-NBC filled the air with two throbbing soap operas, Barry Cameron and David Harum...