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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
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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
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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
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Begin, then, by thoroughly soaping the head (_see_ Head, Soaping).
Papers on Health John Kirk
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The chief agent in the cure is fine soap lather (_see_ Head, Soaping).
Papers on Health John Kirk
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The head may be soaped one night (_see_ Head, Soaping the), and this treatment given the alternate night.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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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
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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
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Soaping, and spread it gently all over the stomach and heart.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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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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