Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thieves apparently entered through a back door, tossed a ham hock from the refrigerator to a watchdog (he was still gnawing contentedly when the police arrived), greased the bottom of the safe with a cake of soap and dragged it away. The money included two $10,000 and 200 $1,000 bills. At week's end, the cops were baffled...
...pastry shops, even a nightclub or two were back in operation. Souvenir sellers were doing a land-office business with G.I. customers. Korean-made flags of the U.S. Confederacy made a brave display at one stall, alongside the flags of South Korea. Other Seoul factories were busily turning out soap, matches and rubber shoes-and cooking utensils made largely of aluminum salvaged from wrecked warplanes...
Upstairs, Resident Dr. Paul Crowley began working up her case in earnest. "Looks like catatonic schiz to me," he said. "But until she comes to and we have a psychiatrist in-who knows? It could be a guilt-complex hysteria." He fed the girl emetic soap water, which she promptly vomited up. The second time, she came to, pleading, "Not again. Please, not again." Dr. Crowley entered her name on the roster of patients to be seen by a psychiatrist on Monday...
...name it, a glut, of love dealings, no matter whether they should turn out to be joyful or disastrous, will increase his power to write." The characterization: "All writers, even those who bask in the splendor of a 15th reprinting, remain mentally unbalanced." After a lifelong career blowing literary soap bubbles, Writer Cabell feels lucky to "sink, cackling thinly, into an amiable senescence...
...adult students may be sure of one thing: they will be getting as sound an education as any undergraduate could hope for. It will, says Louis Hacker, be "formal education. We won't teach them how to repair their radios. And if they want to learn about soap sculpture, they'll just have to look somewhere else...