Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
Bookworm Newton Has Good Capacity, Good Digestion The epistle dedicatory of these essays is addressed to the founder of a little club of wilful men who came together fortnightly 40 years ago in Philadelphia to rub wits and read papers on the lives, times, works, and in the manner, of worthy men of English letters. Author Newton declares that the meetings were a liberal education; and since he further declares this education was the only one he ever received, the reader can but think what a singularly fine little club that fine little club must have been...
...with him but she is a great sport and didn't "worry." She caught even bigger fish than he did. She helped him write this book, which won't make any one jealous, because he tells it all very calmly, like a scientist, and doesn't rub it in how lucky he was to go to school at sea last winter...
...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...moundsman Robinson might have his hat in the baseball Hall of Fame reserved for pitchers of no-hit games. For the last eight innings the Bowdoin twirler had the Crimson eating out of his hand hitless and well nigh runless; but since he had no magic lamp to rub, the first inning must stand, leaving Harvard a 6 to 3 victor and Robinson not an immortal, but only a defeated pitcher...