Word: rub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood studies--including Universal--for so many years. If anything could puncture the movies, "Once In A Lifetime" might be calculated to do it. But the assumption is probably naive, for in filming this uproarious burlesque, the movie magnates have not failed to soften the more biting scenes, and rub the edges smooth. "Once in A Lifetime" is still well-worth seeing, however, as one of the best theatrical satires of recent years...
...released to present to Speaker Garner a petition against adjournment. But first he went before the Capitol to announce: "I've got permission for you to use these centre steps. But you've got to keep a lane open for the white-collar birds inside so they won't rub into us lousy rats. We're Agoing to stay here until I see Hoover...
...about 20 ft. long and snow-white-a friendly soul who for lack of companions of his own species had "struck up a friendship" with steamers. As the daily boat entered the Pass he would come rushing alongside and swish delightedly back & forth in front of the ship and rub himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail taking his picture. Sailors said his object was to rub the barnacles off his back, but whatever the reason he would gambol with the steamer until it reached the end of the Pass (15 or 20 minutes) and then disappear...
Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) will speak at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club tonight at 8.30 o'clock instead of 8 o'clock, as announced yesterday. The meeting will be held in the Geographical Building where Thomas will address the group on "Crossing the Rub Al Khall, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Africa...
...Crossing the Rub' Al Khali, or 'Empty Quarter,' of Arabia" will be the subject of a lecture by Bertram Thomas O. B. E. (Mil) at a meeting of the Harvard Travelers' Club in the Geography Building at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Mr. Thomas is the author of a recent book on the same subject, and of an older work, "Arabia Felix...