corn plaster

Leave it to him to stick like a corn plaster.

Anything from a corn plaster to a broken sandal strap."

"Bless my corn plaster, I should say so!"

(to the officer) "Can you tell where I can get a corn plaster, shorty?"

Corn plaster queen lands weekly spot on 'Kelly"She's a one-woman shock force'

"What are you going to do if Farouk is going to the apothecary for corn plasters, and Jack sneaks in here?"

Here is a show that is outspoken, says what it wants to say, does extraordinary things, takes all sorts of chances, is not out to sell corn plaster, or anything.

Robert Barnard: "A subject of perennial appeal - unhappy families: lots of scattered siblings, lots of Victorian money (made from corn plasters).

Long before shapeless cardigans and outsize feet were making their fashion comeback, May McFettridge was blazing a style trail in elastic stockings and corn plasters.

"If someone has a toothache," the 61-year-old leader said as a full moon rose over a sea of straw hats in the huge Revolutionary Plaza, "why should he wear a corn plaster?

We liked the Museum of Pharmacy, a working chemist's shop where corn plasters and iron tonic are still doled out among the glass flagons and pill grinders left by earlier apothecaries.

The first Dr. Scholl, William Scholl's uncle, was an American physician who in 1906 began selling foot doctor's equipment and foot-care items like corn plasters and arch supports.

When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums - corn plasters of the world, Peruvian nose flutes, or some such other daft idea.

After Mr. Wait failed at efforts to market Jell-O, he sold the formula in 1899 for $450 to a Le Roy neighbor, Orator Frank Woodward, who was already an accomplished marketer of products like Raccoon Corn Plasters and Kemp's Laxative.

Then he cut a pole and put the bag on the end of it, running it through the flaps, and put it over his shoulder in the way tramps carried their property in a handkerchief on the end of a stick in Blue Jay corn plaster advertisements when we were children.