Word: rubdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing village of Shelburne on Sunday he woke to a cold drizzle, decided to stay put for the day. Late that afternoon, looking healthier than he had since he arrived from his West Indies cruise last spring, the President was ferried over to the Potomac for a bath, a rubdown and his first shave since leaving Pulpit Harbor five days before...
...even prescribes a remedy. Thus he inevitably loses to Dr. Hathaway, who can interpret symptoms by intuition as his legs strain for the tape. The latter also knows that the best way to answer difficult questions is to disappear immediately into the main building where he can have his rubdown, free from inquisitive measle victims. It really is a tragedy that he is ineligible for Eddie Farrell's team...
...slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...