Word: soaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...painter even approaching the first rank," wrote famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...
...them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded Shepherd's free plug by offering to sponsor...
...Lamar Caudle had been raised high in the Justice Department by Attorney General Tom Clark (himself the subject of much congressional criticism)-who was soon to be promoted to the U.S. Supreme Court. By the time Caudle appeared before Senate investigators to start blowing explosive soap bubbles around Washington, former Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath happened to be Attorney General. On Truman's order, a wholesale Government cleanup was ordered. To undertake the job, Attorney General McGrath hired New York Lawyer Newbold Morris, an enthusiastic, if inept, reformer. Morris started off with a big bang-by investigating...
MINIMUM WAGE BOOST to $1 per hour has been extended to 36 more businesses working on Government contracts. Among them: luggage, fireworks, tobacco, evaporated milk, soap, fertilizer, cement, tags, surgical instruments. Total affected thus...
...successfully sold many items, from dogfood to diapers, in mass-market fields where there is little discernible difference between competing products. Instead of lecturing readers on engine-ping, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) diverts them with spaceship cartoons. George Gobel's fey, sophisticated humor has helped to build Dial soap into one of the three top-selling U.S. brands...