Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the football season the busiest part of the day for trainers and rub-down men under Jim Cox comes in the early part of the afternoon when the Varsity is turning out for practice. Joe Murphy, who runs the supply room, estimates that the trainers wind 100 miles of tape around uncertain joints during the course of the year, and the amount of energy put into rubbing down swollen limbs is incalculable...
...Stadium management makes no bones about truckling to the soloist trade. It hires soloists by the bushel, and ladies out Tableaus sums for them. As a result--and here is the rub--it must budget, and in so doing cheats the public with second and third-rate conductors. The substitution of some first-rank conductors like Rodzinski and Beecham for the interminable Golschmanns, Smalleness, and Von Hoogstrateus, (who obviously have only got their jobs through Curuegie Hall politics), would take the curse off a concert without soloists, and the public might begin to go in for Brahms and Becthoven...
Good reason had CBS to rub its corporate hands with delight last week as it watched its correspondent William Lawrence Shirer's Berlin Diary nudging up to a sale of 400,000 copies. Keeping a baby spot trained on its former Berlin man, CBS since last July has had him covering home plate in its nightly European news roundups, named him last week to substitute for vacationing Commentator Elmer Davis. Meanwhile, plans were going ahead to feature him a fortnight hence on a Sunday-evening show (5:456 E.D.S.T.) called William Shirer and the News. After three weeks...
...heroine says "mummy" and "tummy" and uses the maternal we. Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...
...Last Night in the Old Home: a mixture of genuine and forced heartbreak which contains this line, spoken by a vapid, bitchy daughter: "That's the difficulty . . . there's nothing much they can do. Oh, mother is trying to rub out the places where we all used to be measured against the door...