Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for that you haven't changed much." (My hair is getting thin, but I try to ignore it. Shad is so blunt.) "Strapped to the top of your bald head, you have a small microwave radio receiving and transmitting set. You radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with flowers. You see her now; you look interested. You examine her antenna out of the corner of your...
...great druggist died last week. A swatch of black crepe hung over the picture of little, round-faced Dr. J. Leon Lascoff in the Manhattan drugstore he founded in 1899. He was the dean of the old-fashioned U.S. pharmacists - the proud little group to whom a soda fountain and its attendant Comus' crew are anathema...
Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig, they presently upchucked...
Slightly Dangerous (M.G.M.) is a mildly loony comedy starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship...
...years a technique for determining sex at the time of conception has been plugged by the New York Daily News (TIME, Dec. 23, 1940). The News advocates preliminary douching with bicarbonate of soda to get males, with lactic acid to get females. Last month this theory was lambasted by the Journal of Heredity, which called it "delightfully cockeyed but potentially dangerous...