Word: unwashedness
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Few years ago Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which makes 60% of all U. S. bowling-alley and poolroom equipment, vowed that the U. S. bowling alley should no longer be a hangout for the unwashed. Reasoning that where women go, men will follow, B-B-C launched a promotional campaign...
> Many a U. S. Founding Father, more than somewhat suspicious of democracy,† took comfort in upholding the poll tax principle, which neatly eliminated the great unwashed from a voice in naming the people's choice. Time, and the growth of democratic ideas, ate away the poll tax bulwarks...
Well, one thing leads to another ("It'll be 15 minutes before the National Broadcasting Company will be ready with the next program, so meanwhile you and I . . .") and almost before the homebody realizes it, Ted has to rush off, leaving behind intriguing thoughts, stray wisps of poetic yarn...
Horridly shattered one night last week was the Temple's careful neutrality. Shatterer was the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran, florid, bald, horn-voiced, hammer-handed president of the International Catholic Truth Society. His "discourse" touched on the dedication, a few hours before, of the Soviet Pavilion. Famed for his...
Dr. William Forest Patrick of Portland, Ore. had a heretical hunch that nature provides for the newborn. In 1931 he let nature take its course, left the original oily "varnish" on several babies, neither washed nor greased them for two weeks. He found them free from all skin infections. Last...