Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Evan Llewelyn Evans, Beautee Soap tycoon, walked into conference, executives trembled and secretaries swooned. When Vic Norman took the dreaded job of handling Beautee's radio commercials for the firm of Kimberly and Maag, despotic Mr. Evans put on one of his most impressive acts. First, he spat on the conference table-to illustrate to Vic that no matter how disgusting a radio commercial may be, it's O.K. if it hits the spot. Then he emptied a carafe of water over the table (drenching the knocking knees of several hirelings)-to illustrate that any other kind...
...Beautee Soap is the stake at which herds of miserable Radio Citymen are burned alive 24 hours a day, to appease both Despot Evans' sadistic love of power and Beautee, and their own terror at the thought of losing Beautee's ten-million-dollar advertising account...
...criminally attacking one of his patients, a young woman. The woman was clearly of a durable sort, for she admitted that she had returned to the doctor's office again & again. She also said that in "vengeance" she had circulated scurrilous pamphlets about him, put garlic in the soap-tray of his consulting room. The jury deliberated, found in her favor, assessed the net damage to her reputation and virtue at one farthing (¼ cent...
...Dublin. As a small boy, George Bernard Shaw saw them at a concert: Sir William, small,-"dressed in snuffy brown [with] the sort of skin that never looks clean"; Lady Wilde, tall and stately, garbed in flowing robes, hung with chains and brooches, and also in obvious need of soap & water...
Corky, finally tracked down, is carried off to court for trial. When a lawyer asks him: "Where.were you on the night of September 21st?" he blushes, refuses to talk. Eventually he is dragged off to the Soap and Water Chamber of Torture, where he is scrubbed to death...