Word: leverence
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...Burns, by Lever Brothers...
Such stars as Burns & Allen, Joan Davis and Fannie Brice were jittery about their present sponsors (Lever Brothers, General Foods...
...core was a drum-tight control of the Negro vote. For as Memphians reflect: "The nigger doesn't vote, he is voted." Thus, at any time, day or night, year in, year out, whenever Ed Crump pulled the lever of his political slot machine, he hit the jackpot-a clear majority of 40,000 to 60,000 votes, enough not only to inundate Memphis but to control Tennessee as well...
...surprisingly agile for a man of over 70. After throwing the lever that released the trap, he would always spring out on the plank over the trap, and, taking hold of the still quivering rope, would look to see if the man had dropped satisfactorily, and then look around and say: "Dropped lovely, didn't he?" This usually managed to make at least one witness faint...
...Lever Brothers (soap, tea, toothpaste, etc.), $7,274,503 for Bob Hope, Inner Sanctum, Lux Radio Theater, A Woman's Life...