Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This convenient cultural pattern, so widely accepted by many non-Catholics, may too easily rub off on less devout and intellectual Catholic families...
...Toby says, "Let's have a catch it is ridiculous for Andrew to comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," unless they have sung a catch. As the disguided Viola, Katharine Hepburn is properly masculine and looks surprisingly young; but her voice-ay, there's the rub. Her delivery is jarring, mechanical, and unintelligent; both she and the director fall even to perceive that the rhythm of "your own most pregnant and voch safed ear" demands that the penultimate word be trisyliabic. Herman Chessid's incidental music is inferior, though his songs are good ("O Mistress Mine...
...office caste system is hardest on those newly promoted, because it forces them-and their wives-to break away from friends. A wife, says one executive, "can be downright dangerous if she insists on keeping close friendships with the wives of her husband's subordinates. Her friendships will rub off on him, color his judgment about the people under him, jeopardize...
...contracts were signed, the tickets went on sale at $10 to $100 a seat, and the promotional drums began going rub-a-dub-dub. Off to a fancy Catskills resort last week went World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, accompanied by a horde of newsmen, handlers and hangers-on, as he began training to defend his title in Manhattan's Polo Grounds on June...
Richard Cwiklinski got out of his hospital bed in Milwaukee at 6:30 a.m., threw on a sports shirt and slacks, strolled down to the cafeteria for breakfast. After breakfast, he had a back rub, went for a walk in the hospital park, leisurely enjoyed the Lake Michigan landscape in the brisk spring...