Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playwriting, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? often badly slithers; and as satire, it is too often a mere family joke. More surprisingly, the sap in Playwright Axelrod's spoofing suddenly turns to syrup. Kidding the blonde siren at the start, Will Success offers a lowdown but lively Monroe Doctrine; championing the playwright at the end, it provides a weirdly solemn Declaration of Independence. (By this time, in Hollywood plays, integrity should be seen and not heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected...
...standard cough suppressants-syrup, steam inhalations, potassium iodide, codeine and various barbiturates-had no effect. After eight days of steady coughing at 15-to-30-second intervals, the girl was close to death from exhaustion. As a last resort, Dr. Richard Gwartney, a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, attempted a much-debated remedy: medical hypnosis. With several attendant physicians, Gwartney sat by the girl's bed and explained what he intended to do, without mentioning the term hypnotism. Said he, in a report on the case last week: "It was all verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted...
...Syrup & Clydesdales. Six months a year, Busch throws open his estate to touring groups of children and adults (32,000 last year), shows them his treasures, dispenses free soda pop, cookies and ice cream smothered in Anheuser-Busch corn syrup. Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug...
While Gussie scrubbed vats, his father tried to hold the company together and fought for survival and repeal. Anheuser-Busch turned from beer to a variety of other products: yeast, refrigeration cabinets, bus and truck bodies, corn and malt syrup, and a variety of soft drinks, including a chocolate soft drink named Carcho. The losses were staggering. Nevertheless, the company stayed in business. Young Gussie used the time to climb through the ranks. By 1924 he was brewery superintendent; in 1926 he was named general manager and sixth vice president; eight years later, when Prohibition was finally repealed...
...continued darkly: "As a matter of fact, it has not got very many peanuts in it. Look inside." He broke the bar in half, held the pieces aloft, and shouted in outraged tones: "It has peanuts all over the outside, but on the inside nothing but corn syrup." Poage's conclusion: the candy manufacturers, by thus fooling their customers, were making profits of some...