Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Porter, 45, opened a new $50,000 paint store that looked more like an art gallery. The white and Negro painters and paperhangers who showed up for her opening party, to rub shoulders with her bigwig friends and Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, saw few paint cans on display (they were tucked out of sight). But there were painters' sponges growing on papier-mâché trees, wallpaper displays in shadow boxes, and some dazzling color schemes...
There's the Rub...
...brushing up their art at special schools, where artful dodgers of long practice instructed beginners on the finer points of fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes...
...Communist and always call myself so," wrote George Bernard Shaw to a Communist candidate for Commons. But, he added, the party had blundered in failing to rub in "the hard fact that in Russia, private enterprise flourishes more than ever." Furthermore, it was opposing the Marshall Plan, "which is for the moment absolutely necessary." Concluded G.B.S.: "The Communist Party knows no more about electioneering than a pig knows of a holiday...
Some 2,000 of Houston's wealthy and others forked over $42 a head to eat imported pate de foie gras in the Shamrock's Emerald Room, rub elbows with the notables, and tour the hotel which McCarthy had built in an effort to make Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria look like a lodging house...