Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Efforts are again on foot to bring home to the Senior the fact that he is soon to become an alumnus. The usual committee is getting up steam and all that is needed now is a few passengers. And there of course is the rub, men in college refuse of take much thought for the future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose...
...season's end, by conjectural count, seventeen nationally-known columnists will compose poems called "The Scrub". In fifteen of these the theme line will be rhymed with "sub" and "rub". Perhaps it is true that because only the imagination of a Second Team player can make tackles on Saturday afternoon, and that there is a broken heart for every play in the Stadium. One is more ready to believe, however, that this wistfulness is tempered with a homely and personal desire to whip the Yale Second Team. But whatever, the part of individual ambition in the struggle for positions...
Boots Cash Chemists Shops, founded by Sir Jesse Boot, Baronet, 31 years ago maintain the flavors of forgotten apothecaries. Although their salespersons sell a variety of trinkets, knicknacks, whatnots, folderols, and hygienic equipment dexterously, they can also rub a powder down with mortar and pestle, fill a capsule, roll a pill, brew an effusion. Nineteen out of twenty Boots employees have never worked elsewhere. Employees of U. S. chain drug stores constantly shift their jobs...
...plainer than handsome, smiling Edward's. West Virginia has two Sharp brothers in politics and they are identical twins. Summers H. Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate and West Virginians say that, should he choose to run, he could (with Summers Sharp's help) campaign in two parts of the State at once, and, if elected, attend the executive...
...Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the 1920 Transportation (consolidation...