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  • Soaping is really like the theatre business for every minute you see on stage -- there are hours of rehearsing behind each line, and people, you may never see working to make it happen -- just like any business.

    Screw Luck? Really? Anne-Marie 2008

  • It would make a good accompaniment to the chapter “Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising” in Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, by Anne McClintock.

    VINTAGE ADS DEPICT AFRICAN AMERICANS AS DIRTY SIMPLETONS » Sociological Images 2008

  • Let the head be soaped (_see_ Head, Soaping) with soap lather at night, and rub all over with hot vinegar and olive oil before rising in the morning.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • Begin, then, by thoroughly soaping the head (_see_ Head, Soaping).

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • The chief agent in the cure is fine soap lather (_see_ Head, Soaping).

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • The head may be soaped one night (_see_ Head, Soaping the), and this treatment given the alternate night.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • Soaping with soap lather over all the body (_see_ LATHER) will greatly restore the tone of the nerves of the skin.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • Soaping: Work for twenty minutes in a bath of 2 lb. soap at

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

  • Soaping, and spread it gently all over the stomach and heart.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • Soaping ourselves all over, we took turns in rubbing each other's backs, then by means of a garden hose, washed the soap off.

    Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

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