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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after an auto accident) he spent over six months in a cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Elmer | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...John Garner's avowed birthplace was a log cabin no longer existing on Blossoms Prairie in East Texas, though it was not the nifty Log Cabin Maple Syrup-like cabin of 1932 campaign posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...quiz program, for Chocolate Products Co. (syrup), over a CBS California network 10 to 10:30 a.m. P.S.T. Saturdays : Stillicious Kids' Quizaroo. Sample poser: Shirley Temple is an ancient Greek ruin. True or false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then sometimes we get a little something taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk up to me and say, 'We haven't got no syrup,' and even after nine years that he has gone on these trips with us, he will look around for the corner grocery store where there is no store in 20 miles of there. . . . Yes, sir, it is an unusual camping experience." Last week, having given all these facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Second Wind | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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