Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...foundation, proceeded to purify one of the ten millions by turning over its income to University of Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...
Speaking of the Classics, he said, "It can best be done in fields like this which are heavily staffed in proportion to the number of students, and the rub will come in History, Government, and Economics. The popularity of the plan, may well be its death, but every effort will be made to take care of all men who turn...
...rub a goodly growth and ponder on the supreme reality. We learn how to win friends and influence people and we have developed a magnificent prejudice for Fascism. We have taken the voodoo out of somnambulism and replaced it with an implicit belief in that supreme bit of charlatanism, that elucidation of common sense by the application of erudite proper nouns, known as Psychology. We still like jazz but we have made it svelt and called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete...
...into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, he asked the Dail to vote de facto recognition by the Irish Free State...