Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubdowns. It was a back-breaking job, but so far no one showed signs of cracking. Caterers brought meals in to the offices of both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting...
Exit Hamlet Harlow to sleep! Perchance to dream of an undefeated team--ay, there's the rub. But come the ides of November, and 'ere long even the Bulldog which barks at Yale, Sirrah, may be muzzled by the Crimson gale...
...Rub butter over the burned areas...
...Grieffs Restaurant on the main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
Best known in the U.S. for his lavishly detailed anti-Nazi cartoons, which for a time were frequent Collier's cover subjects, and for his 1940 illustrations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Szyk is now laboring lovingly over illustrations for the Book of Ruth and the Arabian Nights...