Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfied by offering insult for insult. Soon an urgent cable informed Sir John Simon that his visit must be canceled "due to a slight cold with great hoarseness" contracted by Der Reichsführer. The German cancellation carried no expression of regret, no invitation for a later date. To rub in this diplomatic insult Adolf Hitler, who last month opened Berlin's Motor Show (TIME, Feb. 25), revisited its twelve acres of booths last week, talked loudly if hoarsely with his entourage and neither coughed nor sneezed. At the Foreign Office correspondents were told, "The White Paper...
...Break his legs," begs the crowd, "Rub his back! Get the hairs on his stomach...
...Corp. In 1932 when this arch-promoter was backing the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 companies, he confidently expected his merchandise to become the "Ford of the American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street, which warmly reciprocates his sentiments, he once declared: "I'm no angel but these directors...
Clean and rub furniture--Take in and pile wood...
...ladies who chuckled and wiped their eyes appreciatively over All Passion Spent will rub their spectacles and frown before they get far into The Dark Island. A creative experiment of a more ambitious sort than Novelist Sackville-West has tried hitherto, The Dark Island adds a dubious but disturbing hypothesis in the case of woman as she might be in a world that...