Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such unseemly things as rubber checks, accusations of "goldbricking" and confessions in the attorney general's office seemed as far away as the man in the moon when last month a dignified, well-printed and well-written new business weekly called The Financial Observer appeared in Manhattan's downtown section (TIME, Feb. 15). At $10 a year, The Financial Observer booked 1,000 subscribers, among them J. P. Morgan. Newsstand sales went to 9,000 a week. Backer of the Observer was one John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath...
...small company of really top-class bowlers in the U. S. is not much more likely to win the individual championship than a member of the large class of able bowlers who can average 200 points a game. Delegates to the A. B. C. bring their own rubber composition bowling balls, with holes specially drilled to fit their fingers. The balls are carried in tailored leather or canvas cases...
...many years Massachusetts politicians have entertained rallies with descriptions of the ex-governor, and though the adjectives were always colorful, his friends and enemies could not seem to agree on the character of the evergreen statesman. Like Prosperity he is always just around the corner, and like a rubber ball the harder he is thrown the faster he comes back. His hat is in the center of the ring again; if lifted it would reveal a well-greased political machine running overtime and hopefully attended by a faithful...
...good rubber-tired buggy with fancy paint costs $125. Buggymen sell to foreign government officials, who usually like them gaudy; to places like Bermuda and Mackinac where automobiles are prohibited; and to parts of the U. S. where roads are bad and people poor. Standard's president E. J. Knapp likes to tell of a sale in the South where a three-year-old Ford brought $12, a 30-year-old buggy...
Julia got her real start in an English provincial repertory company. She had lovely legs, but she was not beautiful: she had what the director called an india-rubber face, capable of expressing any emotion at will. In short, Julia was a natural. She was working hard in the repertory company, learning fast, when she fell in love with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much...