Like Adelphi's business, Girard's hair tonic business was very real, but most of its profits were generated from bootleggers, who simply bought Coster's tonic in large quantities and distilled out the alcohol to make booze.
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The resort dates back to 1937, when Arthur Winarick, a Russian emigre who founded the Jeris hair tonic company, settled a debt by taking over a small hotel that would become known as the Concord.
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The title is another obvious play on " hair ", and on patent medicines that had the opposite effect of a " hair tonic " ( as with another Bugs title, " Hare Tonic " ).
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"Before these products were created, the norm for Japanese men was to wear that awful smelling hair tonic, and they really didn't care how they smelled, " said Harueko Kato, a sociologist at Tokyo Women's Christian University.
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Hello, there's an old Carl Barks Donald Duck comic ( likely 50's or 60's ) that involves a get-rich scheme by Donald to buy hair tonic, claim it doesn't work, and then return it for double his money.
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Other sleights of hand : to turn a bowl of cornflakes into the All-American image of morning nutrition, Kurzweil always uses Wildroot hair tonic instead of milk, since the flakes can sit in it for hours without getting soggy.
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A company called Comedy III Entertainment is trying to bring back the phenomenon of the Three Stooges with everything from a new television release of the classic film shorts to items like Three Stooges hair tonic and Three Stooges beer.
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They talk to about Eve's background, where she mentions that her parents died when a theater collapsed somewhere twenty-three years ago, which makes Gus suspect that she is the rightful heir of the J . P . Sardam hair tonic empire and estate.
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The article goes on to quote the sound engineer for the session, Ed DiGiannantonio : " We did the session with Fats Waller . . . When he first got to the studio, he demanded a bottle of VAT-69, which is not hair tonic.
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She asked him for his 110-year-old shoeshine box, a barber's chair, a shaving mug, and some of the bric-a-brac scattered on the walls and mirrors among the dusty bottles of Jevis Hair Tonic and Pinaud Eau de Portugal and pictures of his three daughters and two grandchildren.
