Word: rub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Call this a grudge letter if you so desire. Anyone who considers the grudge unwarranted has my permission to go and rub himself on Hemenway and see how he likes the result. All I did was wrestle there for half an hour. That was a month ago and I am still trying to get rid of my little cargo of bugs. If I get blood poisoning and offer up an arm to the great god Impetigo, then I'm a martyr, I suppose. I'd rather have...
...Duce deigned to chat often and familiarly with correspondents, to whom he usually accords scant courtesy. They, unmollified, reported unkindly that he seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
...LAST OP MRS. CHEYNEY-Ina Claire and a highly polished troupe in a story of stolen pearls in the English nobility. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-The last few weeks of the tale of $20,000 behind the scenes in a Broadway show. Is ZAT So?-Prizefighters and society rub elbows and marvel at each other's vocabularies. MUSICAL Good figures, good fun and good voices are supplied in these: Tip-Toes, Sunny, Artists and Models, The Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince and No, No, Nanette...
Thus Chancellor Luther was "sustained" by 10 votes. But there were 152 "abstentions." There lay the rub. Those who abstained were the 131 Socialists and 21 Deputies of the Economic Union, a minor-party bloc. Henceforth the Herr Chancellor must continue to curry favor with these "benevolent abstainers," as he did throughout his first chancellorship last year. The German party situation continued muddled...
...nose in the Columbia library some months ago must express his laurels in haste to the University of California. Those inconsiderate, Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...