Word: stoppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark old countinghouse at Church and Chambers Streets in Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
Thousands of Americans use salt and pepper shakers made in Japan and Germany. Because they are small and because they have a stopper in them, they are hardly ever washed before using. Could it be possible that a coating of poisoning is applied to the inside of these and other dishes made in those countries? Or perhaps disease germs...
...Howards doing over and refurnishing apartments in one of their castles to be occupied on a brief visit of Queen Victoria, and the present Duke treasures in a glass case the parting gift to his late father bestowed by Her Majesty. This is a small, blue-glass bottle with stopper-intrinsic value perhaps...
...CAST Bill, a Harvard man of the right sort George Whitney '37 "Stopper" Carter, a friend of his Charles Bellows '37 Charlotte Peter Jopling '35 Dean Bounce William M. Hunt, II '36 Fish, a Harvard man Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35 Wasp Anderson Page '37 Jake F. Sewall Gardner '37 Dean Surley Robert Grinnell '36 Mrs. Murphy, a goody, one of the best Lawrence, Nichols '35 Mrs. O'Shaughnessey, her crony Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 Mrs. Bounce, nee Wholeworthy Walter Birge '35 Mary Bounce, her daughter Francis E. Johnson '35 Faunce, a Butler Henry Lyman '37 Mrs. Elwell Myron...
...Dean Surley, Robert Grinnell accomplishes nearly as much for himself as he did for the Republican candidate last fall but he does it with ability. Walter Birge as Mrs. Bounce, Charles Bellows as "Stopper" Carter, and Arthur Jones as Fish, also turned in commendable performances. We seem to have forgotten Bill, the hero, but nevertheless, George Whitney leaves little to be desired...