Word: vita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such fresh little jingles, which Mathews and other U.S. motorists have found a bright spot in the monotony of driving, have been an even brighter spot to the Burma-Vita Co., makers of Burma-Shave. Thanks to this form of advertising, the company has doubled and redoubled sales of its brushless cream to a current gross of some $3,000,000 a year...
Last week, the Burma-Vita Co. was freshening up its fun for motorists. It had completed the big job of selecting 25 new jingles from the 50,000 which amateur versifiers submitted. And it started repainting its 40,000 signs, in the first complete overhaul since 1941, with such deathless new lines...
...checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
...nudging Fay for honors is Josephine Hull, fresh from "Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...
Just as Dr. Chumley, the psychiatrist at the sanatarium, is about to give Elwood a shot of Formula X to cure what supposedly ails him, the taxi driver who has brought the Dowds to the institution comes in for his money. Vita and Myrtle find they're fresh out, so they stop the injection and tell Elwood to pay the man. Elwood in his pleasant and disarming way discusses life with the cab driver, invites him over to the house for dinner, and makes the duped young fellow forget all about the $2.75. But the cabbie likes Elwood...