Word: rubbered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designer Jo Mielziner scores one game toward an artistic rubber for Winterset the moment the curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered...
...autonomous brood he draws an aggregate salary of $64,370 a year. Politically he is independent. A Hooverite and a Dry in 1932. he became a New Dealer through his interest in managed currency and his friendship with its No. 1 manager, Cornell's famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment, he permits the editors of his individual papers to accept beer and liquor advertisements at their own discretion, notes with delight that none is so indiscreet as to do so. A boyhood job as barkeep...
Odors of roast beef, warm rubber and ozone pervaded the 22nd floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Hotel Kansas Citian last week. The odors arose from electric knives, heat applicators and ultraviolet light generators in operation. Those machines and a variety of similar medical machines, ornamented with shiny chromium and nickel, dials, gauges, thermometers, bulbs, motors, rheostats, pedals, levers, knobs and buttons were working because 400 physicians who are sincerely trying to put physical therapy on a respectable basis in the U. S. met in Kansas City to conduct a Congress of Physical Therapy...
...made a loud pop. . . . I felt a jar on the front of the car. . . . I saw bits of rubber fly up from the left front tire. The salt flying up into my face had by now almost stopped vision through my goggles. I swerved out of line. I snapped the 'old lady' back quickly and there wasn't much trouble in the run to the stop...
Last week another surprising story burgeoned in Germany. This time there was no picture, but the yarn was carefully authenticated by the German Air Sport League. It announced that a pilot named Duennbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, pumped feverishly at a bicycle-like treadle, flown a yard off the ground for some...