slang list

[Laurence Horn]

>There were a lot of these anxiety-producing expressions in ad writing in
>those days:
>"Halitosis" (Listerine)
>"B.O." (Lifebuoy)
>"Tattle-tale Gray" (Fels Naptha soap)
>"Pink Toothbrush" (Can't remember who promoted this worry)
>There was some shaming term for dandruff which I have forgotten, promoted
>by Fitch's Shampoo.

And let's not forget "Ring around the collar", an insidious and
generally fatal disorder, curable only by I forget which product.

>Not that the technique began or ended there, but these I remember as being
>more or less contemporaneous with "gaposis."
>
>A. Murie
>
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