Word: sores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...
...ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...
...eyebrows. Groucho Marx, the most brittle of the four "Animal Crackers" now playing at the Shubert Theatre, hissed invectives against New England in general and Massachusetts in particular. It was all on account of the recent "Strange Interlude" controversy, a propose of which Groucho said: "Yeah, Quincy's a sore throat: and Boston's a pain in the neck." He pointed out that behind all this "preposterous censorship" were not the Lowells and the Cabots and God, but the Caseys and the Kellys; however, he added, "the Cabots and that crowd are so scared of a left wing that they...
...couldn't stand for killing innocent people. . . . Agents are frightened when they go out on the job. They are imbued with the idea that they are going into battle. . . . Recently after Washington officials were in Detroit, our chief told us they were sore because so many motor boats broke down and said some of the boys must be 'on the take' [accepting bribes]. I know the boats broke down because the men running them were in experienced...
...catching the rabbits, however, he had tramped many a mile, and sore and painful were his feet. So he skinned two of his rabbits, put their fur in his shoes, and quickly eased his throbs and burnings...