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Word: soaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soap Lord McElroy, who speaks feudalistically of the "ordinary people . . . who win wars for us," shrugs off a job even the feudal lords did not shirk: they, at least, usually realized that raising artistic standards was not alone "the problem of the schools" but the moral and social responsibility of those whose money supported artistic media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Evidently the long-winded yarn has been a feature of Procter & Gamble advertising for some time. I have a full page verse narrative (154 lines of rhymed couplets) telling the story of Ivory Soap for readers of a juvenile magazine back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...rich and poor, the great and small, Found Ivory Soap had cleansed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...appeal of the 1885 version of the soap opera must have been strong, for either grandmother or one of her brood carefully preserved A Friendly Turn in the commodious family Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...interesting fact that Ivory soap ads emphasize that it is 99 and 44/100ths per cent pure. I have never seen any public discussion of Ivory soap which emphasized only 56/100ths of 1 per cent impurity. I imagine that if this phase had been harped upon for 30 years, it would not have improved 'Proctor & Gamble's business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown's Wriston Defends Colleges On Communist-Domination Charge | 10/22/1953 | See Source »

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