Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of his treasures on the deck for the benefit of ship news reporters. They included a number of bullet hard leather pellets stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from...
Your article implies that the Miller Rubber Co. first developed and marketed the rubber doll, but that is not the case. This company manufactured the first all-rubber doll with moving arms and legs and the dolls so manufactured were marketed by the American Character Doll Co. of New York, who sold them in large quantities during 1931. The doll we made then has since been improved but it is still equipped in the larger sizes with a light flexible metal frame and contrary to the inference made in your article, it is not heavy or cumbersome...
...gospel for all G. O. Partisans, it prompted such an irreverent individual as Funny man Will Rogers to remark: "Calvin Coolidge has had everybody on the anxious seat for months as to who he would sup port in the November handicap. Campaign managers and politicians have been dogging his rubber-booted steps. But it took, not a politician, but a commercial-minded gentleman (proprietor of America's biggest nickelodeon), Mr. George Horace Lorimer, not with words or editorial persuasion but with his signature on a small piece of paper, payable at one of the few banks left open, to break...
...Estelle, Edward III, William Henry, Patrick Anson, Timothy Michael. After many a speech, U. S. C.'s President von Kleinsmid accepted the keys to the great bronze doors of the Library, largest yet to be cast in the West. Then the visitors inspected coppered, acoustic-plastered ceilings and rubber-tiled floors; the main reading room, 131 ft. by 48 ft., with stained glass windows; the Treasure Room for rare books, wherein are murals depicting the history of printing, and "Ned" Doheny's bust...
...just a little fool. . . . We love each other more than ever now." He exhibited to reporters a telegram: "I will love only you always." Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Julia Davis Adams, daughter of famed Democrat John William Davis: Boston Socialite William McMillan Adams, who has been U. S. Rubber Co.'s representative in Denmark. Died. Professor William C. Schluter, 38, able professor of finance in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia. At his death were detectives with a warrant charging him with attempted rape of Negress...