Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sally of the Scandals. The genuine Scandals of George White opened on a Manhattan stage last week (see p. 30). By a preconceived coincidence, a scandalously peppermint-coated film also opened. Its idea is that earnest little girls are given a break in the big & naughty Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
American Chicle Co. (peppermint & licorice, chewing gums & candies*)- $1,524,002. Previous year...
Long ago when little Manhattan girls-they wore flounces and frilly ribbons then-wanted peppermint drops they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker...
Every flavor from salt through iodine to peppermint is at the dentifrice consumer's disposal. He can buy gritty dentifrices or soapy ones. If perverse, he may vary flavors and textures with the seasons. How shall the advertiser, having a single soap-polish to sell, get it into contact, year after year, with even the most fickle palate...
...varying nature of the articles received last year makes it doubtful how big a celebration can be made on the proceeds. At that time several thousand pennies, a peppermint life-saver, and tissue paper were among the contributions...