Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begrudge the Physics department across the way from Paine Hall their ten odd electric water coolers for drinking fountains might be thought unkind by the S. P. C. A. But to the average mind, it does seem at least strange that a building with such crass luxuries should rub elbows with the physical poverty of a distinguished, if small, department like Music. The petition, printed on page one today, does not exaggerate the handicap that the present hole of a library offers to undergraduates and graduate alike. It totally neglects to state that a large part of all the scores...
...campaign speech is the eternal Mayor of Lyons, roly-poly Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot. In 1932 M. Herriot was ousted as Premier for insisting that France should pay something on her War debt to the U. S. Last week on a platform in Lyons he did his best to rub his opponents' noses with the fact that by refusing to make even a token payment, France had lost an ally of incalculable value...
...Singing Kid (Warner). Cinemaddicts for whom Warner Brothers musicals have hitherto been trademarked by the presence of Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations...
...enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...
...Rub. ''Among the nations of the great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good neighbor has happily prevailed. . . . There is neither war, nor rumor of war, nor desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing...