Word: powdering
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...Face powder comes in so many different shades and in so many different brands that many druggists have to stock with 25 varieties. Over 95% of the women used face powder, averaging 3 1/3 boxes yearly. Four brands sold 62% of the trade...
Teeth cleansers 97% used?tooth paste 90%. A drug store had to carry at least 17 brands of the 83 exploited to him?Colgates's, Pepsodent, Iodent, and so on. Only 7% of the population used tooth powder; 12% mouth washes, of which there were 39 different kinds...
...13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...
...claims of an American in New Zealand. William Webster, a Maine man, bought 500,000 acres of land in New Zealand from native chiefs during the five years prior to 1840. His medium of exchange was described before the commission as consisting of rum, duck trousers, blankets, tobacco and powder. Other speculators purchased large tracts of land, and soon 650,000 acres more than the total area of New Zealand had been sold in all. To complicate matters, Great Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840. Only titles recognized by the land court were recognized. Since that time friction between...
...Then the powder mine, the dynamite, the explosion, failure, disgrace, a fortune swept away, and all for the want of ready money to carry on the work. Gambling? No, never for a minute. It was sound to the centre; right to the rim. And I had it in my hand, on the very tips of my fingers?knew every move in the game?the bounding forward of the circulation proved it, the gold coming in proved...