Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside of the invitation was a quotation from a leading Octavian, Author Compton Mackenzie (The Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed...
Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...
...Journal, quoting Dr. Arthur Joseph Cramp, the A. M. A.'s patent-medicine expert, points out that the 1939 label makes no promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...
Three years later Frank D. Coster turned up in Mount Vernon, New York, with $2,000 and started making hair tonic in a small factory he called Girard & Co. Coster's assistant was known as Philip Girard. Prohibition agents often got after Girard & Co., which used a great deal of alcohol, but they never proved anything. By 1925 Coster had $37,000 and wanted to expand...
...good tonic, I respectfully suggest that President Roosevelt go to see "quick-silvered," electric Tallulah Bankhead when he wants complete relaxation. Miss Bankhead has the faculty to make you forget everything, except what is transpiring on the stage...