Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hogs, Syrup, Common Sense...
...Cook is not insane. People who have known him for years will tell you so. He was born Lopez, orphaned young, raised by relatives in Evansville, Ind. He still talks a lot about Evansville. In his current offering he fondly remembers an uncle who did not pour his maple syrup on pancakes, but cut the cakes up, poured them on the maple syrup. He has trouped with medicine shows, carnivals, burlesque shows and in vaudeville. He considers his first professional engagement the act which he did with his late brother Leo in 1907. He was 17. The act was called...
...said she regretfully. I can't.'' Of Ezra Pound her criticism is even more cavalier: "She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not. not." Glenway Wescott "at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour." But she thinks F. Scott Fitzgerald "will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten...
...Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United Drug's manufactures...
...years have taken their toll. The Pabsts like the Busches stood by to let Prohibition pass. Fred Pabst turned to cheese, ginger ale. near beer, pop. While he was doing so a chemist, Harris Perlstein. in Chicago picked up an old brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost, but long enmity was not engendered. Last autumn efficient Mr. Perlstein bought control of Pabst (TIME, Nov. 14), became...