Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtesy of Messrs. Lindsay and Grouse to the men in the front line of defense, 2,000 sailors will see practically the same cast give the first non-professional production of Arsenic & Old Lace. Now when some branch of the armed services in Hawaii wishes to be entertained, we rub our hands with servile glee and say, "What'll it be, boys-ham or homicide...
Pocketful of Cash. Men & women who had seldom had one coin to rub against another suddenly heard an unmistakable jingle from their pockets. Girls who had worked as maids for room, board and peanuts found factory jobs at $100-$200 a month. A Manhattan physician's maid quit to move into her own home: her husband, out of work for years, now made $26 a day pouring cement...
...late John Kane (TIME, Nov. 7, 1938), a Pittsburgh carpenter and day laborer, whose meticulous Pittsburgh scenes already rub elbows with Cezannes and Renoirs in U.S. museums...
...parents and churchmen alike had a right to rub their eyes in wonder last week at the news from Britain. In the U.S. almost every State makes it a crime to give sectarian instruction in the public schools, but within a few weeks Parliament will actually make religious instruction and daily worship a statutory requirement for every school in the United Kingdom...
...hand last week to wish Centerline Godspeed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Rear Admiral William Henry Purnell ("Spike") Blandy, chief of Navy Ordnance, had good reason to rub their hands with satisfaction. Navy Ordnance is in good shape, although it is faced with 1) the monumental job of fitting out a two-ocean navy; 2) supplying ordnance to Great Britain and her allies; 3) arming Coast Guard vessels and Army transports; 4) preparing to arm U.S. merchant ships...