Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While "embezzlement, bribery and politics" have made "a shambles of Oklahoma City's school system," grumbled the Times, schools in comparable Fort Worth are "an educational fairyland." The paper proceeded to rub it in with two pages of photographs and text picturing Fort Worth's Fairyland...
...Laborite Daily Herald started it by offering a complete set of Dickens for a few shillings. Beaverbrook was in Berlin. He hurried back and called a parley of the Press Lords at the Savoy Hotel. All were ready to compromise, but Beaverbrook had decided to rub his colleagues' noses in the mess they had made. As he put it: "I drew my sword and swore not to place it back in its sheath until I had punished them...
...says he will show to every one in France, is a folder of matches from a New York hotel. The matches are fully-dressed cardboard maidens. Of them M. Friedland says with Gallic awe (his assistant's translation) : "America, it is wonderful. Here it is only needed to rub the young lady in order to make the fire...
...Ganzer Kerl!" Adolf Hitler, who makes it his crude habit to rub the noses of distinguished foreign guests as deeply as possible in Nazidom, characteristically staged the Munich conference at the very hub of the Nazi movement, the Führerhaus (Leader's House...
...minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before 17 startled passengers. He was allowed to finish his ride in one of four unoccupied seats. At the next stopping place he was escorted off airport property and released. Only rub was that Flyer Hagaman, in the excitement of his adventure, boarded an eastbound plane, found himself in Dayton, Ohio, 150 miles farther away from home...