Word: lollypops
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Although there is an undoubted value in sugaring the diet, it has been observed, and rightly observed, that the main purpose of lollypops is to give the child a substitute for his thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills...
...President Coolidge should pack up a galaxy of green silk pajamas and 36 pairs of spats, go jaunting in the Southland, perform like a clown and be hit on the nose by a lollypop at the New Orleans Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)-he would no doubt be flayed in the press for wantonly neglecting his duty. But an unlimited amount of insouciance is expected and applauded when it is exhibited by Mayor James J. Walker of New York City...
...Diabetic patients who are gripped with a form of fear from an overdose of insulin may have their courage immediately restored by sucking a lollypop...
...London or Paris in 1930 or 1931. Prosthetists heard with acclaim that the phrase "false teeth" is to be deplored when "denture" more pleasantly describes the "exquisite creations of the master dentist of today" (Dr. Harry J. Homer of Pittsburgh); that every time a child eats a lollypop "he might as well say goodbye to one of his teeth," and for "every man who habitually eats soft, mushy foods" the human race is one step nearer utter toothlessness.* "Diet is the most important factor in keeping the teeth ... in good health" (Dr. S. E. Butler of Tokyo, Japan). Some artificial...
...composer Brahms was a prodiguous, forbidding fellow. His huge Teutonic whiskers used to sweep over his whole waistcoat as he remarked: "For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage." This spirit runs through his music, which makes no compromises with the sugary "lollypop-school." There are but few exceptions to this: His Hungarian Dances are played, with excessive abandon, by every vaudeville violinist and every cafe-orchestra in Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true...