Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like unfortunates to avail themselves of some favored herb. Recently, perfumes, automobiles, Florida resorts advertised as among their purchasers New York and Philadelphia bluebloods. Most advertising managers forget that the majority of Americans are neither watchmen nor bluebloods; one astute man did not. Last week appeared an advertisement captioned "Everyday Folks and Their Breakfasts." It pointed out the peculiar delicacies of puffed wheat beneath the porttrait of J. P. Coogan (Jackie's grandfather), a New York Central station master...
...School of Religious Education in Boston, a member of the Council of Radcliffe, President of the Radcliffe Auxiliary, Vice President of the National Religious Education Association, member of the Massachusetts Civic League, of the Boston Women's Municipal League, and of the Massachusetts Women's Educational Association. Her books: Everyday Ethics, Report of (Massachusetts) State Board of Education, Ethics for Children, A Course in Citizenship, Volunteer Help to the Schools, Our Part in the World, Seven Ages of Childhood...
...Americans excel above all in character acting. The two great successes in London in the past year have been Lucille Laverne in Sunup," and John Barrymore in the Shakespeare plays. On the other hand, the success of an English actor seems to lie in his ability to portray the everyday man as he is. Cyril Maude, for instance is praised for his acting as Cyril Maude, and not for any particular part he takes...
...student and teacher, Dr. Fosdick soon discovered that a great many people were sidetracking Christianity. Either they ignored it altogether, or else they kept it strictly apart from their practical everyday lives. This Dr. Fosdick analyzed as the chief cause of their unhappy discontent...
Meantime schoolchildren continued their vacation rompings. Parents pruned their bread and butter tree. Ordinary days went by, adding into everyday weeks, which became commonplace months in a prosaic year...