Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ably remodeled Powell from the vacuous crooner of Warner Brothers musicals into a convincing prototype of a drudge with a dream of sudden wealth with which he can buy his mother a convertible settee and his girl a fancy wedding. Pale-faced, canyon-mouthed Ellen Drew, a onetime Hollywood soda clerk, was coached into a realistic likeness of a sugary, $18-a-week stenographer. A good dramatist, Sturges kept his characters credible by the simple but neglected technique of letting them act like people. For instance, when the Maxford House president is writing out Powell's contest check...
Ninety-five percent of Billings and Stover's business is professional prescription work. Mr. Mahoney considers his soda, cigarettes, and candy supply only a necessary evil. There aren't any swivel-stools in front of the soda fountain. But business along that line is good enough to warrent the presence of two great barrels of Coca-Cola syrup among the "reserves supplies" down cellar...
...party, advertised in newspapers for guests, limited their visit "to ten minutes for men over 18-ladies over 16." He drew about 1,000 people, who received a pamphlet written by Thaw on the Belgian food crisis, listened to a five-piece orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, gulped free soda pop, watched Thaw eat dinner in the kitchen, were ushered out soon after 9 p.m. by city detectives...
...Guard and reserve soldiers wound up the first week of the Army's greatest peacetime maneuvers and went to town to act like brutal soldiery on their night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...Maxon's eye is his summer home, the Cabin, in the Northern Michigan town of Onaway (pop. 1,492), where he was born. The Cabin is a modest estate of eleven buildings equipped with every comfort. Items: two tennis courts, stables, a large playhouse complete with full-size soda fountain (because Maxon could never afford to buy enough sodas when he was a boy). He can and does bed & board 72 guests at a time, sometimes entertains up to 400 guests a week. Often as not they include overalled members of the six-team Onaway softball league which Maxon...