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Gillettes Original "Community Sing"Entry/Object ID
006.019.001Description
Paper song book -- "Gillette's Original 'Community Sing' " Over CBS every Sunday evening. Second Official Song Book. 1937. 32 pages [if back cover were still in place]. Black/white photographs and cartoon line drawing of a female razor blade and a male razor, with the caption "We were made for each other" on most pages. Lyrics for 128 songs, from approximately the beginning of the 20th century to the 1930's. Inside front cover lists the personalities connected with Gillette Original Community Sing program and page 2 is Gillette's introduction to the song book. Also included in the book is a typewritten sheet of newsprint with the heading "Old Fashioned Dinner", a party quiz, which consists of a series of 18 questions, whose answers produce the dishes for an old fashioned dinner. For example: Q. A country in Asia, A. Turkey; Q. A goat, A. butter; Q. An Indian's wife and an interjection of silence, A. Squash [squaw plus "shhh",] [in 2008, the term "squaw" is no longer used!]; Q. Reverse and small bites, A. Turnips, etc. The answers are handwritten after each question and in the left margin, some questions have a food suggestion written beside them, as if planning a menu to match the questions.Lexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsCreated By
Jones, IsabelCreate Date
January 11, 2008Update Date
October 2, 2025