Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whodunit sequence in which Sidney Greenstreet plays Brahms's Lullaby while he tells Peter Lorre how to rub out Humphrey Bogart...
Yesterday morning, for instance, a card-hungry horde knocked her down, stopped on her, and, to rub salt in the would, "blow a hole in my last pair of nylons...
Opening guns of the New England Students for Wallace campaign will boom today and tonight when 500 collegiate delegates crowd into Longfellow Auditorium in downtown Cambridge as guests of the Harvard Committee for Wallace and other Rub groups...
...children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons no holds are barred, and Harvard undergraduates rub elbows with students of Somerville High and with the families who have formed the Laffmovie habit. At these times the house is packed, and old-timers are reminded of the grand old vaudeville days...
...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...