Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biddle boy [Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia] is quite crazy, fresh and stupid, he has been boot-boxed once and threatened to be pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
Among the few rural paintings in Shahn's show was one of a solitary workman playing Pretty Girl Milking the Cow on a harmonica. It was far from pastoral. Whenever he can, he visits Manhattan "to see my reflection in the windows and rub elbows with the crowd. I take in all the newsreels too, and I think they influence my work quite a bit. Movies are really the master medium...
Chirp. A wristwatch with an alarm based on the principle used by male crickets to produce their chirping (they rub a saw-toothed edge on one front wing against the other) will soon be put on sale by Switzerland's Vulcain Watch Co. The name: Vulcain Cricket. The price...
...Wolfie," who had some difficulty getting Elda's name straight, used to rub the bloom off their tenderest moments by murmuring into her hair, "Ella," or "Ida," or "Edna," or "Nella" (the names of his previous wives). With the help of a numerologist, she converted Elda into Hedda and Wolfie never barked up the wrong tree again...
...loyal but fidgety Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.: "Henry works himself up. ... I'll have to rub his brow and he'll be all right...