Word: rubdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to record the sounds of a great city-a fight at Madison Square Garden, a crowd at the racetrack, trains in the Grand Central Station, Manhattan traffic. To provide a framework for the noise a girl reporter risks worse than death in interviewing a pug who takes his rubdown before his shower, chats happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics...
Such questions, vital, cannot be answered without a preliminary brisk reading of the short treaty text, followed by a stimulating mental rubdown with the treaty reservations...
...King Football lumbered into the locker room, stowed his gear, had him a rubdown, called it a season. Thanksgiving Day and the subsequent Saturday left nothing ahead but late holiday games in California and the annual bickerfests over "ranking...