Word: soda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form...
...failure to rescue S-4 survivors, the most notable evidence brought out was that the officers in charge had not known about the trick of passing air through a submarine's "ears" (S.C. tubes) until too late; that Navy bureaucracy was at fault for the S-4 lacking soda lime (air purifier...
...Robert Livingston Clarkson looks rather like the young men who play football in college, sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage...
...same thing for Irish households, soft-shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers...
...Manhattan, mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models...