Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Blankley's (Warner). By the same mental process which makes even the feeblest joke sound funny when whispered in church, the sight of a tragedian and screen romanticist as eminent as John Barrymore trying, at a dinner party, to cut a rubber squab which squirts out gravy and squeaks, is more hilarious than the same scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives...
Tomorrow 20 members of the squad with Coach Mitchell, three managers, and a rubber, will leave by boat for Norfolk, Virginia, whence they will travel to Williamsburg to start the spring schedule on Tuesday engaging William and Mary.S. L. Batchelder '31 and Charles Devens '32, the starting catcher and pitcher, respectively, for Harvard when it opens its season today...
...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
Berlin. A squad of police met up with a band of "demonstrators" armed with knives and brass knuckles, laid about them with their gummi knüppel (rubber clubs), grievously injured one. In the west-Prussian town of Halle, Communists opened fire on the police, who retaliated in kind, killing...
Handball. Foundation of all ball games. No net. Small inflated rubber ball, leather gloves. Alfred Banuet, a young Latin who has been beating all the hand-ball-playing San Francisco policemen at the four-walled game, went to St. Louis last week to defend his national title, played circles around his opponents, put out George Nelson of Baltimore in the finals...