Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Red Skelton, 34, rubber-faced, baby-talking radio and cinema comic, and second wife Georgia Maureen Davis Skelton, 26, retired starlet: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Richard Freeman. Weight...
Costume rules issued to the corps of ushers call for traditional Radcliffe garb: all-white dresses, and white or spectator pumps with rubber heels. Hats and white gloves will be worn at the Baccalaureate services. Rubber heels are a 1948 addition to the costume, made necessary by Sanders' hardwood floors and acoustics which in other years have amplified the clatter of uncushioned spike heels...
...morning last week Annie was up & about, to get breakfast for a son and daughter and Bert Hadley, for whom she keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October...
Homecoming (MGM) features Clark Gable as an army surgeon named Ulysses and Lana Turner as an army nurse called Snapshot. At first they don't like each other at all, but after she has helped pull on his rubber gloves a few times, they begin to feel different...
...characters of The Naked and the Dead are the members of a platoon, six of them survivors of a rubber-boat disaster at Motome, wearied, embittered, haunted by a premonition of death, snarling about the newcomers and (occasionally) feeling a grudging responsibility for them, nervous, profane, lecherous. Their conversation is recorded with the fidelity of a recording machine. Indeed, it is almost too exact and too tough to be quite accurate...