Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...more than 20 industries. Of 800 replies received, 58% pointed to busy winter prospects; 54%, of the responding concerns had either maintained or raised the wage scale. Eight industries actually showed gains over 1930. These were automobile accessories 14%, chemicals 11%, electrical 18%,, leather 27%, paper & pulp 14%, rubber 25%, stationery & printing 9%,, textiles 17%, miscellaneous...
Mobsmen drove the police first from Sir Ronald's garage, poured gasoline on the six Government cars, burnt them with yells of triumph and great stench of rubber & paint. Next they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...
...passports. This they try and fail to do by singing like Maurice Chevalier. Harpo, most furious at having his queer purposes interrupted, leaps on the desk of a passport inspector. Grinning wildly, he tears up thousands of important papers, stamps the pate of the chief passport inspector with a rubber stamp. The Marxes go to a party. They have contracted simultaneous alliances with two rival gangsters aboard ship. At the party, one gangster kidnaps his rival's daughter. She is the girl whom Zeppo admires and when she has been retrieved from a barn, in which Harpo makes advances...
...group so small that the gathering would have been a complete failure had it not been for the presence of the whole Freshman Class, which had turned out en masse for their first--and last--college football rally. The members of the team, grouped together like so many rubber plants, were seated on a stage at the end of the hall, together with several fiendishly loyal and enthusiastic old "H" men, who glowered at the meager group of undergraduates, irritated because the whole University had not put in an appearance...