Word: spotlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manage U. S. investment trusts in 1936 the investigation will be a painful ordeal. Even if their own records are spotless, the records of their trusts are probably not. Most trusts have bought other trusts, and the reason they were able to buy them was generally that the trust for sale had been either mismanaged or plundered. SEC intends to study not only present managements but those of predecessor trusts...
...Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France, a ministry in which so many Radical Socialists and Socialists had found places (along with a self-styled "Dissident Communist") that...
...grocery store handouts and small advertisements in Manhattan newspapers had gone well enough to convince Enoch Morgan's Sons Co., makers of Sapolio, that old soap advertising jingles like this were still good copy in 1936. Morgan's new batch of jingles told of the rediscovery of Spotless Town, mythical Sapolio-scoured seat of immaculacy, which between 1899 and 1905 made Sapolio probably the world's best-advertised product. The company has gone back to Spotless Town to advertise a new Sapolio powder with which it hopes to emerge from nearly 30 years of obscurity...
Bret Harte was one of the many rhymesters who sold verses for Sapolio advertising. His parody of Longfellow's Excelsior served as a handout in 1877. The original Spotless Town jingles were submitted to Morgan's in 1899 by a Cornell undergraduate named Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance...
...work, Sapolio's decline had definitely begun. As powdered scouring soaps entered the market, Sapolio sales dropped steadily, amounting in 1932 to only $300,000, less than the oldtime advertising budget alone. Morgan's experimented with a powder in 1913, in 1915, and again in 1930, but Spotless Town had lost its appeal. But not until this year did the company develop a new and improved powder for which it was willing to try another Sapolio revival...