Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul speech was the peak of a gratifying week. At every village, town and city, the crowds waited in startling numbers. Dayton turned out more than 50,000 strong. Akron's rubber workers and the Democratic machine put on the biggest political show in the city's history; more than 60,000 stood for two hours along the main streets, cheering wildly as Truman passed. In Springfield, Ill., the oldtime campaign flares were burning and streets were packed twelve deep. In Duluth, half the city (pop. 110,000) lined Superior Street for more than two miles, clambered...
...mysterious and sickening stench-which seemed to combine the odors of onions, ammonia, burning rubber, creosote, dried fish and wet dogs-was borne in upon San Francisco from the Pacific Ocean. It set housewives to sealing their windows with adhesive tape, drove office workers out of the upper floors of high buildings, gave some panicky citizens the idea that the city was being subjected to a gas attack. It turned out to be a gas called S-Ethyl-Thiouracil, which had been blown to sea from oil refineries, then blown back in again...
Summer and Smoke (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Margo Jones) is all too plainly-but not too happily-by the author of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. What stamps, and sometimes rubber-stamps, it as his is the nature of the story and the style of the storytelling; far too often missing is the talent of the storyteller...
...McHugh which, if they remind you that you have heard them somewhere before, still prompt you to want to hear them again. That is saying a lot for modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time he can throw away most of the story, cut the love interest, further undress his girlies, put the spectacles back on Bobby Clark, and let him run wild--barefoot...
First on the program yesterday was Hugh Shepley '51, pictured at right practicing his specialty as a ringer in the annual Wellesley hoop races. Shepley also claimed acquaintanceship with indian clubs, rubber balls, and chinaware...