Word: rubdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus set to music, On Your Toes a spoof at ballet, Babes in Arms about kids in a depression world, I'd Rather Be Right a rubdown of F. D. R., I Married An Angel a pure extravaganza that started in Heaven and ended in Radio City...
Preacher Lee continued through the night, shouting into the microphone when he retired to the vestry to change his clothing, attend to needs of nature, shave, relax on the rubdown table. Some 200 worshipers stuck it out with him all that night...
...small Immanuel Temple to better the marathoning records of Preacher Brown and Dr. Mdodana. Preacher Lee, a curly-haired, wisp-mustached University of California graduate, declared he would preach continuously for 60 hours. He hired a nurse and dietitian, a portable microphone, had food, wearing apparel and a rubdown table placed in his vestry. Subject of his sermon: "The Deity of God in Jesus Christ...
Leaving Boston the procession was booed by Harvard students as it passed through Cambridge. It reached Worcester at 8:30 p. m. where the President had a rubdown and an hour's rest before delivering his major speech. The pack at Worcester knocked down a trolley pole and five people were injured, but the least enthusiastic hour of the tour was when Franklin Roosevelt drove down to board his train between lanes of silent curiosity-seekers...
...Startling innovations by Edward VIII last week were appointment to the Royal Household of an osteopath and an aviator. Officially styled "Manipulative Surgeon to His Majesty," muscular and dynamic Sir Morton Smart has been for 16 years his royal master's chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...