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...slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed the thesaurus and found no less than 30 synonyms for the sluggishness which the pills were said to cure...
Fare Enough. In Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran, who had been advertising that he would pay any prospective customer's transportation to his showroom, got a taker, shelled out $708 to Bernard J. Menth for a plane ticket from Sydney, Australia...
...most of the dormitories different girls are on bell duty from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. During this time the bell-taker rings rising and meal bells, and sorts mail and puts it in boxes. She also deals with delivery men and cleaners. At the end of the day, after seeing that all men have left, she locks up the dormitory...
Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...
...there were some complaints. Many citizens concluded that the census questions were either too general or subject to too much loose interpretation. Novelist Ben Ames (Leave Her to Heaven) Williams took delight in answering with literal honesty, told the census taker he had been last employed in 1912, had never finished high school (he had studied under a tutor) and that, counting meditation, he had toiled 112 hours the previous week...