Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the publicity police were loath to "rubber-hose" Prisoner Hauptmann's story out of him. But the gentler method of keeping him awake, nagging him with questions for 48 hours brought small results. The stolid, 35-year-old Teuton soon closed his mouth tight. His shocked wife Anna, who apparently knew nothing of her husband's finances, got him a lawyer, but Hauptmann refused to see him. Then she got him another...
...TIME, Sept. 3, you show a striking ad of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., headed ''Rubber Doughnuts...
...other documents, du Pont officials kept referring to what they called the "Poison Label," a special mark placed on secret documents in the company files that were to be read only by Senate committee investigators or du Pont directors. The "Poison Label" turned out to be a square rubber stamp that read...
...Chicago, Rosita Royce danced one night in the Streets of Paris without her fig leaf, explained to a judge: "The wind blew it off." Sally Rand danced onto a theatre stage holding a big rubber "bubble" between herself and the audience. The bubble burst. To Mary Belle Spencer, crusading attorney who had Sally arrested, newshawks showed a picture of her half-naked 14-year-old daughter holding a trophy won in a bathing beauty contest. Said Mary Belle Spencer...
There were three principal ways of getting messages over the Dutch border: 1) On dark nights "passeurs" would go through the wire wearing rubber gloves and rubber socks, dodging the sentries. 2 ) Bargemen from Rotterdam to Antwerp would find means of concealing dispatches. 3) Belgian peasants whose farms touched the frontier were sometimes induced to pick up and transmit papers secretly tossed over the wire at night...