Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because the Christian Fronter also buys soap." Next he smacked the lordly commentators. "Four destroyers went down the ways a couple of days ago. They weren't built by radio commentators. . . ." Corwin said radio's big job was to "indoctrinate the people" with a knowledge of what they are fighting...
...late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision...
...soprano-less Singapiel features an original half-hour musical score composed by James Lawlor, '44, played by a small studio orchestra, which is integrated with the spoken lines to produce more effect of operatia than of soap opera with incidental music...
...65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...
...mornings a week (over the Blue Network) for the duration, Chaplain Jim is scheduled to bring the everyday problems of Army men home to their mothers, wives and sweethearts. A 15-minute sustaining show, it is being written and produced by Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc., who run the biggest soap-opera factory in the world...