Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Washington hostesses of proper vintage remember Mrs. Grace Coolidge as the woman who was most to be admired during the years after Mrs. T. R. Her quiet charm put all at ease - a considerable feat, since Silent Cal sometimes had a servant rub Vaseline into the presidential hair while he ate breakfast, once ordered a toupee painted on the Red Room portrait of bald John Adams, and often almost paralyzed guests with his wordlessness. The Herbert Hoovers spent a great deal of money on entertainment, but their era was one of work and worry. Eleanor Roosevelt had little interest...
...there comes the rub...
This can be done without refurbishing the plumbing or dangling yourself over the side of a tub. Simply sit with your fanny and feet in hot water. Stand occasionally and rub what seems appropriate with a bathcloth filled with ice cubes, if you want to be real heroic and make it a "hot and cold fanny fling...
...agricultural, not their scholarly ability. What Littauer can tamper with, however, is the doctor's degree itself. If the degree clearly indicated that the extension doctorate was in agricultural studies alone, there could be no complaints that standards were being diluted. For the farm educators' purposes, this qualification would rub no shine off their sheepskins. And it would close a loophole through which many academically average students have been slipping into a supposed doctorate...
...Game last week, after Yale had rolled to its sixth touchdown, the exuberant Elis decided that it was time to rub some noses into the mud of Harvard Stadium. Off the Yale bench trotted a diminutive player wearing No. 99, unlisted in the program; he took his place at right end as the teams lined up for the point after touchdown. Instead of the standard place kick, a scoring pass was flipped to No. 99. The hopped-up Yales carried the new hero off the field in triumph, pummeling and pounding him as though he had scored the deciding point...