Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole nation had the air of a man waiting. The economy twitched a little, nervously. With reflexes conditioned by World War II, consumers started a rush on cars, tires, nylons, washing machines and refrigerators, soap and even toilet paper. (A Chillicothe, Mo. man wrote his grocer: "Give me 100 pounds of sugar before those hoarders...
...sister Emma. "The whole parish is full of it," she answered. "How did it begin?" asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...
...been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that she kept a "prison kit" always in readiness containing toilet articles and a pair of silk pajamas...
Pulpit Manners. Author Harmon advises against "smoothing the hair, arranging the tie, or in any way putting the finishing touch upon one's personal toilet before the congregation...
...omnipresent advertising is the smooth promotional touch of Neil McElroy, who moved into the president's chair only 19 months ago, when Richard Deupree became board chairman. Just out of Harvard in 1925, McElroy started at the bottom in P. & G.'s advertising department, plugged Camay toilet soap door-to-door, later directed ad campaigns for such products as Dreft, Drene, and Duz, which he made bestsellers. As president, he still likes the person-to-person approach, will talk soap to his wife's bridge party guests, or to anybody he meets at any time to learn...